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verbal or epistolary communication with the parties concerned ;
in 512 cases it was found necessary to issue formal notices, and
in 17 these had to be repeated; in very few cases was there any
need of application to the magistrate. 26 notices, having reference,
however, to a considerably larger number of works, were
uncomplied with on the 31 st March. 49 slaughter houses were
examined; no applications for license were opposed; all had been
whitewashed during the year, some several times ; and in eleven
instances the paving had been amended.
Several other matters also of more or less importance have at
various times occupied my attention. In the first place, I have
furnished you monthly with the results of chemical analyses of
the waters supplied to this parish by the Lambeth, Southwark
and Vauxhall, and Kent Water Companies; in order that by
keeping a watch over them any repetition of the extraordinary
conduct displayed by one of them a year or two ago might be
prevented. The result of these analyses has been to show that
the waters which they severally furnish are, on the whole,
(though presenting slight fluctuations) as pure and wholesome
as can reasonably be expected. In the second place, in consequence
of representations which were made to me with regard to
the conveyance of the corpses of children to cemeteries in
common street cabs, I instituted an inquiry into the subject;
ascertained the truth of the alleged impropriety and its frequency;
made the matter public by an appeal to the magistrate; and
though I learned by this means that there existed no legal
remedy, still the result was so far satisfactory that the practice,
as far at least as regards the Camberwell cemeteries, has been
in great measure discontinued. In the third place, finding that
small pox began to spread in certain districts of the parish towards
the close of last year, and that it continued with increasing
severity during the earlier months of the present one, I obtained
the permission of the vestry to publish a hand-bill drawing the