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the Act of Parliament; and that with the assistance of Dr.
Bernays, of St. Thomas's Hospital, I have also tested periodically
the waters of the Lambeth, Southwark and Kent Water Companies,
and generally with a satisfactory result.
During the last year, in the course of the discussions to which
the measures which had to be taken in consequence of cholera, and
of the condition of property in the Parish (as revealed by more
extensive inspections) gave rise, much blame was attributed to
the two old inspectors, and much misapprehension was shewn,
both as to the kind and amount of work which they had effected,
and as to the management generally of the sanitary business of
the Vestry. It seems to me desirable, for the sake both of the
sanitary officers of the Vestry, and of the Vestry itself, that the
Vestry, and through the Vestry the Parish, should be correctly
informed upon these matters.
The duties which the inspectors have had to perform have
been very multifarious, and not wholly connected with sanitary
matters; additions too have been made to them from time to
time. The following is an enumeration of these duties:—
1st.—to examine into, and to report upon, all nuisances
which are the subject of complaint:
2nd.—to report upon all nuisances which come under their
notice during their perambulations:
3rd.—to inspect and report upon all houses in which deaths
from certain zymotic diseases (such as small-pox, typhus, &c.)
occur:
4th.—to make systematic house to house visitations, and to
report in detail upon the sanitary condition of all houses thus
visited:
5th.—to make out and to serve all notices for abatement or