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Shirley F. Murphy, embodied in the last Annual Report, came on
for consideration in September, when the further consideration was
adjourned to October 17th, and at the mooting that day the consideration
of the report had to bo further adjourned. Afterwards
special meetings of the Vestry to consider the Report were held, the
result of which was the decision that there should bo an exporienced
and responsible head of the Sanitary Department, that an additional
Sanitary Officer be appointed, and a District, as recommended by
the Report, assigned to each of the three Inspectors, and it was
referred to the Special Committee to prepare Draft Regulations,
under the 35th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, as to houses lot
in lodgings. The Government Bill, for the consolidation of the
Public Health (Metropolis) Act, and for the Housing of the Working
Classes, so affects the subject of the regulations that it has
been deemed advisable to postpone the preparation of the Draft
Regulations.
On the 2nd January, the offer of Dr. Rate, the Medical Officer
of Health, to control the work of the Sanitary Inspectors for twelve
months, without extra remuneration, was accepted, and these officers
directed to act generally under his instructions.
In December, Mr. Gerald Watts, who had been employed in the
Sanitary Department of Mary lebone Vestry, was elected the third
Sanitary Inspector, at a salary of £120 per annum. Ho entered
upon his duties in January last. His conduct not having been
satisfactory, he resigned in the first week of March.
Mr. John Foot, of 6, Cheyne Row, Chelsea, has since been
selected to succeed Mr. Watts as Sanitary Inspector.
There appeared in November, in the Daily Telegraph, a letter
dated the 16th November, to the Editor by a member of the Vestry,
as follows:—
"to the editor of the 'daily telegraph'
"Sir,—Permit me, as leader of the opposition, and the mover of the
amendment, to point out that which was omitted in your roport
of yesterday's proceedings at the Bethnal Green Vestry.