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On the 13th December 1892, the Clerk read the following letter
from the Local Government Board, viz.
Whitehall, S.W.,
7th December, 1892.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to acknowledge
the receipt of your letters of the 25th ultimo and the 2nd
instant with reference to the proceedings of Dr. J. E. Cooney as
Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of Fulham.
I am directed to state that the Board think it desirable that,
in the first instance, the specific circumstances which have led
the Vestry to request the Board to assent to Dr. Cooney's
resignation of the above-mentioned office being required,
should be stated in a more definite form.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
(Signed) WILL. E. KNOLLYS,
W. J. H. Denselow, Esq., Assistant Secretary.
Clerk to the Vestry of the Parish of Fulham.
And it was Resolved:—
That the resolution and representation passed by the Vestry
on the 23rd November, 1892, be referred to the Solicitor to prepare
in a definite form in accordance with the letter from the
the Local Government Board.
On the 19th December, 1892, the Solicitor presented the
ment prepared by him which was sealed and ordered to be
forwarded to the Local Government Board.
suspension of At the meeting of the Vestry held on the 18th January,
1893.
It was moved by Mr. Lawrence and seconded by Mr. G.
Williams:—
"That having further considered the matter, together with
letter from the Local Government Board, asking for the Vestry's
observations on a letter from Mr. W. Firth, the tenant of No.
21, Tournay Road, complaining of the inaction of the Vestry
and its officials, and having also considered the report of the
Medical Officer of Health on the subject, your Committee have
given the Solicitor and Clerk instructions as to preparing the
Vestry's observations for consideration at an adjourned meeting
of this Committee, to be held on Tuesday, the 17th January, at
7 p.m., and recommend that Dr. J. Edwin Cooney be suspended
from the office of Medical Officer of Health pending the decision
of the Local Government Board.
After a long discussion the motion was carried by 32 votes to
24, when a division was claimed when there voted : Forr the motion,
33; against, 26.