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DISINFECTOR.
The purchase (mentioned in the last Report) was made and the
Disinfector erected in Digby Street Yard. The cost has been as
follows:—
Disinfector, Trucks, &c. £363 0 0
Fittings 19 14 0
Shed and Gates 49 15 0
£432 9 0
Happily, since the purchase of the Disinfector, no infectious
disease has extensively prevailed in the Parish, so that the utility
and advantage of the Disinfector have not become fully manifest.
COMPOSITION RATE.
The appeal to the House of Lords against the judgment of the
Lords Justices confirming the award, by the Queen's Bench
Division, of a peremptory mandamus commanding the Churchwardens
to make a rate sufficient for all the purposes specified in
the Composition Rate Act, was heard on the 8th and 9th June
before Lords Blackburn, Bramwell and Fitzgerald. Judgment
was delivered on the 14th July and the appeal dismissed with
costs. See Judgment, page 38.
A copy of the account rendered by Mr. Churchwarden Baugh
will be found at page 36.
A rate at a half-penny in the pound for the then current year
was agreed to on the 17th December, and has since been duly
signed and sealed by the Vestry.
THAMES COMMUNICATION.
At the request of the Thames Crossings Committee, Messrs.
Abbott, Pickard, Thurgood, Wright & Loveday were authorised
"to continue their services in the matter of Thames Communication
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