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the next meeting, which he did; and the Sub-Committee visited Rainham
and Purfleet on the 11th February following, when they instructed the
Clerk to write to several contractors for prices for barging the dust, &c., to
Rainham, and he and the Surveyor were directed to draw up independent
reports, showing the relative cost of the purchase of the land at Rainham
as against that of barging, and present the same to the next meeting of the
Sanitary Committee, which they did on the 1st March, when the Clerk
was intructed to write to the Thames Conservators and Commissioners of
the Essex Sewers making certain enquiries respecting the land.
At the Sanitary Committee, on the 8th March, the Clerk having produced
letters from the Commissioners of the Essex Sewers and Mr. Thomson,
received since the last meeting, it was resolved:—
"That advertisements be issued, through the Solicitor to the Vestry,
for other suitable laud for the purpose of the disposal of dust, and the
Clerk was instructed to ascertain what the charges, rates, &c., on the
land at Rainham amounted to per annum, and by whom levied, and
to also get the Surveyor of Purfleet to give him his estimate of the
value of the land in question."
On the 22nd March, the Clerk produced various communications received
in response to the Solicitor's advertisement for suitable land, and from
Contractors as to the barging away, and having reported how the matter
stood at that time, he was ordered to write to Mr. Mandell, offering him
2s. 6d. per load to remove the dust for the next 12 months.
Medical Officer of Health.
At the meeting of the Vestry held on the 1st April, 1891, the Clerk read
a letter from the Local Government Board enclosing copy of a letter
addressed by them to Dr. Egan, calling upon him to resign.
Resignation of Dr. Egan. The Clerk also read letter from Dr. Egan, resigning his
position as Medical Officer of Health on account of failing
health and eyesight, and inability to efficiently carry out the ordinary duties
of the position, together with those imposed under the Inland Revenue and
Housing of the Working Classes Acts, which resignation was accepted, and
the Clerk was instructed to fill up the proposal for appointment of the
Medical Officer of Health for submission to and approval by the Local
Government Board, and the Sanitary Committee instructed to insert an
advertisement in the West London Observer, Fulham Chronicle, and Lancet,
that the Vestry would, on the 29th April, 1891, proceed to the election of
a Medical Officer of Health. On the 3rd June, the Clerk produced to the
Vestry the 24 applications he had received for the above appointment,
which were referred to a Special meeting of the Sanitary Committee held
on the 5th June, 1891. At a Special Vestry meeting, held on the 8th June,
1891, the Sanitary Committee reported that they had selected Drs. Jackson,
Luff, Cooney, and Davis, to attend before the Vestry, and after these
gentlemen had been interviewed, a vote was taken by ballot, when