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giving Local Bodies power of control over
itinerant showmen; and petitions for the
amendment of the Diseases Prevention Bill,
and the Sanitary Inspection of Dwellings Bill.
The years 1883-4 will be marked by general
efforts to improve the sanitary condition of the
poor, and the Vestry gave earnest attention to
the matter. It is not necessary here, however,
to refer more specially to their work in this
connection, as their views have been so ably
expressed in the exhaustive reports, written by
their Medical Officer, and reprinted herewith.
For the same reason it is only necessary
casually to refer to their enforcement of the
Artizans' and Labourers' Acts, to the houses
in Basing Road, which resulted in the demolition
of property that was quite unfit for human
habitation. It is satisfactory to be able to
state that every assistance was given to the
Vestry by the owners of the houses.
Deaths of
Messrs.Mulley
and Coombs,
and of Mr. D.
S. Waters.
Your Vestry Clerk, in conclusion, records
again here, what has been expressed by the
members in Vestry assembled, the loss it is felt
the parish has sustained in the death of
members who have long had its welfare at