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be done at owner's expense. 6. Vestry's mode of procedure.
7. Rules with respect to house drainage, &c. 8. Power of
Metropolitan Board of Works to make Bye-laws, &c.
9. Public conveniences. 10. Drinking fountains. 11. Paving
and drainage of private mews, courts, &c. 12. Consumption
of smoke. 13. Periodical removal of manure and other
refuse matter. 14, Trade refuse. 15. Infectious-disease
hospitals: Ambulances. 16. Disinfecting chamber. 17.
Defective enforcement of Sanitary Law. 18. Amendment of
Law : summary powers needed.
The Committee's report was adopted by your Vestry
(January 8th, 1886), and, subsequently, a joint report by the
Committee and the Works, &c., Committee, "as to the best
means to be adopted for carrying out the recommendations"
contained in the Law Committee's report. The said reports
were communicated to the several Vestries and District
Boards, and met with considerable approval. They were
also forwarded to the Metropoliton Board of Works with a
request that action might be taken to obtain amendment of
the law in certain respects. The Board, however, "while
fully recognizing the importance of the suggestions contained
in the ably-prepared documents," "regretted that, in view of
the wide range of subjects which are sought to be dealt
with," it was not prepared to " proceed to legislation in the
direction indicated." Upon the formation of the London
County Council, the reports were communicated to that body
whose influence has been exerted with considerable effect in
the promotion of legislation, which, it is believed, will go far
to secure many of the objects sought to be attained by your
Vestry; as will be apparent on comparison of the recommendations
made by the Committee—as set out in previous
reports—with the provisions of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, (dealt with in my Annual Report for 1890, at
page 136), and those of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
to which I shall next refer,