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President of the Local Government Board, 'That this
measure really constitutes the basis of the subject which
has to be considered by the Select Committee.' The Vestry
expresses its strong disapproval of the attitude of the
London County Council in regard to the measure. That a
copy of the foregoing Resolution be sent to the President of
the Local Government Board, to the London County
Council, and to each Vestry and District Board of the
Metropolis."
The Vestry also declined to grant a further sum of
£100 for furthering the Metropolis Water Supply Bill then
before the Select Committee of the House of Commons.
The Select Committee appointed by the House of
Commons has thrown out the Bill promoted by the Vestries
and District Boards of the Metropolis.
The Sanitary The Vestry considered the Report of the
staff. Medical Officer, which is printed in the last
Annual Report, in which the Medical Officer stated that
owing to the large increase in the new and important
duties imposed upon the Inspectors in regard to the
sanitary arrangements of new houses and reconstruction
of drains of houses already built, and the additional
responsibility thrown on the Department by the Notification
of Diseases Act, also the Regulations in respect
of houses let in lodgings which quite recently received the
sanction of the Local Government Board, and are now about
to come into operation, it was desirable that the present staff
of Inspectors should be doubled, and that to each Inspector
there should be allotted an Assistant Inspector, and