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And at the same meeting it was Resolved :—
(1) That notice is hereby given to the Vestrymen of the Parish
of Fulham under article 8 of "The Sanitary Officers (London)
Order, 1891," this 13th day April, 1892, at one of the ordinary
meetings of the said Vestry, that on the 27th day of April, 1892,
at the next ordinary meeting of the Vestry, the proposed
re-appointment of Dr. J. Edwin Cooney, D.P.H., as Medical
Officer of Health for Fulham, under the aforesaid Order, will be
made on the same terms of appointment as now existing, viz.:—
at a salary of £400 a year, and the said Officer to give such time
as is necessary to perform the duties of the office. The
re-appointment to take effect on the termination of the
present appointment on 8th June, 1892.
(2) That the Clerk be instructed to place the foregoing proposed
re-appointment on the Agenda Paper, for the Vestry
Meeting on the 27th April, 1892, and that such business to be
taken at 8 p.m. or as soon after as possible.
On the 27th April, 1892, it was Besolved :—
"That Dr. J. Edwin Cooney, D.P.H. be re-appointed as
Medical Officer of Health for Fulham, under "The Sanitary
Officers (London) Order, 1891," on the same terms of appointment
as now existing, viz.:—at a salary of £400 a year, and the
said Officer to give such time as is necessary to perform the
duties of the office. The re-appointment to take effect on the
termination of the present appointment on 8th June, 1892.
And the Clerk was instructed to submit this resolution to the
Local Government Board, together with the Vestry's resolution of
the 13th April, 1892.
On the 24th May, 1892, the Clerk read letter from the Local
Government Board, drawing attention to their letters of the 14th and
29th April, 1891, and stating that they were still strongly of opinion
that having regard to the increasing population of the Parish, it was
very desirable that the Medical Officer of Health should be required
to devote his whole time to the discharge of his duties, and requesting
the Vestry to give the matter their careful re-consideration, the
question being of greater importance as the Officer appointed would
hold the office permanently, when
It was Resolved :—
That the Local Government Board be informed in reply to
their letter of 19th inst., that the Vestry of Fulham have already
on two occasions—of which resolutions have been recently forwarded
to the Board—considered the Board's letters dated
14th and 29th April, 1891, (written before the appointment of
the present Medical Officer of Health) and the advisability of
appointing a Medical Officer of Health to devote his whole time
to the discharge of his duties, and acting on the Local Govern-