View report page

23
The Vestry were put to the expense of removing the ballast
shot upon the land.
LOANS.
During the year the Vestry have borrowed of the Metropolitan
Board of Works £2100 to defray the cost of paving the carriageways
of old streets, and £900 towards the cost of the Green Street
Improvement. Each loan is to be repaid by twenty equal annual
instalments, with interest, at £3 10s. per cent.
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
A letter from the Metropolitan Asylums Board, with a copy of
a letter by that Board to the Local Government Board, and a copy
of a letter from the Vestry of Kensington, addressed to Vestries
and District Boards, and a memorandum of the Medical Officer
of Kensington, and also a letter from the Society of Medical
Officers, with copies of resolutions by the Society, were referred to
a Special Committee of nine members.
The Committee were of opinion that it was desirable to provide
for the Compulsory Notification of Infectious Diseases, and
recommended that a communication be addressed to the Local
Government Board, asking the Board to bring in a Bill to provide
for Compulsory Notification of Infectious Diseases. The Report
of the Committee was not adopted by the Vestry.
STREETS REGULATIONS.
The regulations adopted, printed and circulated, are as follow:—
1.—No Barrow, Cart or Stall for the sale of articles in the street (except
coffee stalls) shall exceed 9ft. in length or 3ft. Gin. in width, and no part of anysuch
barrow, cart or stall (except coffee stalls), as regards the width, shall project
beyond the wheels.
2.—No Barrow, Cart or Stall shall be placed or stand in any street or public
way alongside another barrow, cart or stall so as to lessen or obstruct the breadth
of such street or public way by more than the width of one barrow, cart or stall.