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more effectual flush, with a given quantity of water, is made
with the full sized pipe than with the one ordinarily employed.
The Sub-Committee held two meetings on the Approaches
to the Small-Pox and Fever Hospitals, and came to the following
resolution : " That in the opinion of the Sub-Committee appointed
to view the approaches to the Small-Pox and Fever Hospitals,
the inhabitants of the locality incur serious risk to health in
consequence of the inadequate approaches to the said hospitals,
and that therefore it is desirable to secure improved communications
therewith from High Street, Homerton." I was requested
by the Committee, when the resolution was submitted to them,
to write to the Managers of the Asylums Board ; and received a
communication, that the Committee of the Homerton Asylums
could not recommend their Board to take any action the matter,
and that their Board had adopted the report.
The Committee also considered your reference re the duties
and emoluments of the Public Analyst, and brought up a report
recommending that your Medical Officer of Health should be
appointed, and that the salary should be provisionally fixed for one
year at £75 Os. Od., which report you adopted. They also advised
the fitting up the Laboratory in a good and substantial way, and
that the cellar adjoining the Laboratory should be excavated and
made into a room, which has been done at a comparatively small
expense, so that the Laboratory is now large enough for carrying
on the work requisite for this District.
In connection with the Analytical work, I may mention,
that the Committee considered the retention by the Police
Authorities of the penalties inflicted under the Act as most
unfair towards the Local Authorities, who have all the trouble
and expense of procuring a conviction. They, therefore, directed
me to apply to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
for the futun penalties. The letter was written on the 29th day
of November, and an answer received on the 6th day of December
to the effect—that the penalties under this Act are payable to th^