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Fever brought home by the soldiers, viz., the 1st Battalion
Grenadier Guards, engaged in the recent Soudan Campaign.
Number of articles disinfected from the Guards'
Hospitals 5,475
Number of articles disinfected from the Guards'
Quarters 30
Number of articles disinfected from the United
Parishes 11,248
Number of rooms fumigated 316
Number of families removed to the Vestry Reception
Rooms 15
Number of bodies removed to the Mortuary 162
Number of inquests held at the Coroner's Court 131
Number of bodies to await burial 31
The Committee received and considered a recommendation
from their Mortuary Sub-committee, recommending certain
cleansing and repainting works being executed in connection
with the mortuary premises, and specifying in detail the
works necessary to be done. Having ascertained from the
surveyor that the cost of the proposed works would not
exceed £26 15s.,
They recommended that the works suggested by the
Mortuary Sub-committee be executed under the
direction of the surveyor, at a cost not exceeding
£26 15s. These works have been carried out.
Legal Proceedings.
The following summonses have been taken out during the
year 1898, by order of the Vestry:—
Inspector Dee.
Eight summonses were taken out during the year, all under
the powers conferred by the Public Health (London) Act,
1891.
A total sum of £24 7s. 6d. was recovered.
The only case in which the Vestry was unsuccessful was
that in which an attempt was made to enforce the provision
of water closets for workmen employed on a building in course
of erection. The Magistrate in adjourning the case said that
it would be advisable for the defendant to comply with the
requirements of the Vestry, which he thought were reasonable,
and although he might decide in defendant's favour as far as
the legal question was concerned, yet he would certainly grant
a case if the Vestry asked him to do so. This case is
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