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by any water consumer or local authority, the Commission may
hear and determine such complaint, and if satisfied that the
complaint is well founded, may order the Company, within such
reasonable time as is specified in the order, to remove the ground
of such complaint, and may enforce such order in like manner as
any other order of the Commission, and may award damages to
the complainant.
Section II. states:—
A local authority may aid any water consumer in obtaining
the determination of any question which appears to the local
authority to be of interest to water consumers within the district
of such local authority with respect to the rights, duties, and
liabilities of any of the metropolitan water companies in reference
to the quantity or quality of water supplied or the charges made
by them.
Infant Life Protection Act.
This Act was passed in August, 1897, and supersedes the
old Act of 1872.
In the new Act, which came into force on January 1st, 1898,
the age of protection is raised from two years to five.
Coroner's Court and Mortuary.
Summary of work performed during the year 1897.
Number of articles disinfected from the Guards'
Hospitals 3,880
Number of articles disinfected from Guards' quarters 417
Number of articles disinfected from the United
Parishes 10,646
Number of rooms disinfected 338
Number of families removed to the Vestry's Reception
rooms 25
Number of bodies removed to the mortuary 140
Number of inquests held at the Coroner's Court 119
Number of bodies to await burial 21
Disinfection by Steam.
A further improvement in disinfection by steam has been
"adopted in the apparatus with which the disinfection steamboat,
James Wadsworth, engaged in the Port of New York, is
provided, and which is described by Dr. Alvah Doty, the health
officer of the Port, in the August issue of the American Journal
of the Medical Sciences. It consists in the exhaustion of the
air in the chamber so as to produce a partial vacuum before