London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Kensington 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]

This page requires JavaScript

121
To submit, from time to time, to the Works, &c., Committee suitable sites
for Public Conveniences.
To report to the Works, &c., Committee as to the practicability and the
cost of giving effect to the recommendation for providing means for
supplying the public with drinking water, by attaching a simple
apparatus to the several standpipes for street watering.
10. WITH RESPECT TO THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
The Works, Sanitary and General Purposes Committee should give the
several Sanitary Inspectors such instructions as may be necessary for
carrying into effect the recommendations contained in the Report,
viz. :—
To enquire and report to the Works, &c., Committee on all matters
contained in the ha If-yearly reports of the District Surveyors relating
to underground rooms, with a view to such action by the-Vestry as the
circumstances of each case may seem to warrant.
To take steps to obtain the Vestry's Notice requiring the execution of
necessary works under the provisions of the Metropolis Management
Acts in all suitable cases.
To report to the Clerk, when applying for a summons under the Nuisances
Removal Acts, whether the case is one in which it is necessary to ask
the Justices for an Order to prohibit the recurrence of the nuisance.
To give the necessary information to the Clerk to enable liim to enforce,
as far as practicable, whatever penalties may have been incurred
through disobedience of the Justices' Order.
To inform the Surveyor when it becomes necessary for that officer, in case
of disobedience to the Vestry's Notice under the Metropolis Management
Acts, or disobedience of the Order of the Justices under the
Nuisances Removal Acts, to enter upon the premises to execute
structural works for giving effect to the Vestry's Notice or to remove
or abate a nuisance.
To enter upon the premises to remove or abate the nuisance at the cost
of the owner or occupier when the Order of the Justices is not
obeyed within the time limited therein.
To act in the inspection of all houses upon the " Instructions" with
respect to drainage, ventilation of drains, water supply, etc., adopted
by the Vestry (February 11th, 1885) for the guidance of the Inspectors
in respect of Registered houses, when on examination sanitary
improvements are found to be necessary.
To submit from time to time to the Works, &c., Committee a list of private
mews, courts, etc., suitable to be paved and drained, in order that the
necessary directions may be issued for giving effect to the opinion of
the Law and Parliamentary Committee, that the Vestry have power lo
cause such work to be done at the cost of the owners of abutting
premises.