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sanction to the erection of a disinfecting apparatus, thereby
carrying out the 23rd section of the Sanitary Act of 1866.
(6.) And shortly afterwards the Burial Board ordered
the mortuary, which had been previously erected in the
Forest Hill Cemetery, to be altered so as to be applicable to
the purposes referred to in the 27th section of the same Act.
(7.) Early in 1871,I put myself into communication with
the Managers of the parochial and charity schools, and some
of the private schools of the parish, and obtained from nearly
all of them permission to have the children attendant at
these schools inspected by the district vaccinators, in order
that those among them who had not been vaccinated, or
had been insufficiently vaccinated, might be vaccinated,
and that those who having been successfully vaccinated
in infancy had attained the age of 9 or 10 and upwards,
might, if it were thought desirable, be re-vaccinated.
This measure gave, I believe, a large impulse to vaccination,
and was instrumental in raising the vaccinations by
the Public Vaccinators in the quarter ending March 25th
to the large number of 6,607, of which 1,590 were primary,,
5,017 re-vaccinations.
Among the nuisances grouped together in the table as
"Miscellaneous Nuisances," was one of sufficient importance
to be put on separate record. It was the nuisance
caused upon the space of ground occupying the angle
between the trunk of the Grand Surrey Canal and its
Peckham branch, by the formation there of three dust
shoots—that of the Newington Vestry, that of Mr,
Lipscomb, and that of Mr. Reed.
The Newington Vestry had taken their plot of ground