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Officer of Health to settle the said forms, with authority to
consult the Solicitors on any points that may arise thereon," a
course which has been carried into effect. With reference to
the provisions of sec. 3, which impose upon the Sanitary
Authority the duty of giving "such directions to their officers as
will secure the existence of a nuisance being immediately
brought to the notice of any person who may be required to
abate" it, in order that "the officer shall do so by serving a
written intimation," the Committee recommended that such
directions be given by the adoption of a resolution," that—
"Under and pursuant to the said section the Medical Officer of Health and
the several Inspectors be and hereby are directed, upon discovering the
existence of any nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under the
Act, to bring the same to the notice of the person who may be required
to abate it, by serving a written intimation, and to report all such cases
to the Vestry, or the Committee which may be appointed for the purposes
of the Act."
This recommendation was referred to the Works and
Sanitary Committee for consideration and report, and having
been approved by the Committee was adopted by your Vestry
at a subsequent meeting.
Cost ok Carrying Out the New Acts.—In compliance
with the request of your Vestry for "an estimate
of the probable cost of carrying out the new Acts," I reported
as follows:—
"Any eslimate can, at present, be but provisional. We know—the fact has
been accepted by your Vestry—that it will be the duty of the Sanitary
Authority, under the first section of the Public Health Act, to cause to
be made from time to time inspection of their district, 'so as to secure
the proper sanitary condition of all premises,' including, in Kensington,
some 22,000 inhabited houses. This would be an exceeding great
task, even if it stood alone. But a further express duty is imposed on
the Sanitary Authority by the Act, viz., to observe and enforce the byelaws
which it is the duty of the County Council, and of the SanitaryAuthority,
to frame for a variety of purposes, all of which were set out in my
tenth report (vide page 117). Among other duties which will devolve on
the department is that of carrying out the provisions of the Smoke Con-
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