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in respect to property inspected, and reported upon by your
Medical Officer. It has also been found expedient in many
instances to permit the owners of property to continue the use
of the drains already existing on their premises, on their filling
up the cesspools, and carrying out other remedial works which
effect the necessary improvements, and remove the complaints
of the occupants, whilst at the same time it releases the property
from an outlay which, in many instances, it is scarcely
able to bear. Pursuing this course, and thus carrying out the
spirit of the Metropolitan Local Management Act, without exercising
oppressive powers has been the means of effecting much
sanitary good within the Parish, and has avoided complaints of
harsh and overstrained authority from being charged either
upon the Vestry or its officers; but two cases of appeal against
the orders of the Vestry for "Works considered necessary to be
executed, have occurred during the last twelve months, and in
both of these instances the works are now in progress by the
owners. I beg to refer the Vestry to the appended table on
this subject.