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Vestry Officials, and the number of beds and other articles
disinfected in the Parish disinfector.
I think it will be admitted that the sanitary work
done during the last twelve months has been very considerable,
and I am sure that on the whole it has been
carried out in a highly satisfactory manner, and (considering
how much such work is apt to irritate and offend)
with singularly little friction.
It will be recollected that owing to the large extension
of sanitary duties which has taken place during the last
few years, arising partly from the growth of population,
partly from the increasing stringency of legislation, and
partly from the growing fastidiousness of the public, you
have, mainly at my own suggestion made many important
additions to the sanitary staff, and you have a right to be
informed how far this large increase is justified by results.
I propose, therefore, to lay before you a brief narrative of
the progress of sanitary events in relation to the parish.
I will commence by quoting a passage from my report
for the year 1888-89:—From the time when the present
Vestry came into existence, great attention has been paid to
the Sanitary arrangements of houses. At first, we had to
get rid of the cess-pools and common privies, with which,
almost without exception, every house was provided, to
have these replaced by water-closets, and to insist on the
trapping and cleansing of drains, and on the drainage of
yards and areas. But in these earlier times, the best forms
of closets, the best arrangements for flushing them and
keeping them sweet, the best methods of dealing with the
removal of slops, foul-water, and rain-water, the best form