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Removal of swings
Recreation Ground.
In consequence of the swings being principally used
by young men and women, the children being thereby
prevented from having the proper use of them, the Vestry
resolved, that they be taken down, and the swings have been
removed accordingly.
Bandstand.
Messrs. Lovibond's Dana having expressed their
willingness to play once a week at the Recreation Ground
if the Vestry would have the band stand covered, and
provide music stands, the Vestry resolved to cover the bandstand and
provide music stands, as suggested.
Enquiry into working
of
Sanitary Department.
On the 18th September, 1895, Vestry, on the
recommendation of the Sanitary Committee, confirmed the
appointment of a Sub-Committee, consisting of the
Chairman of the Committee, Dr. J. R. Hill and Messrs. Drew, Jewson,
Marks and C. J. Williams, to enquire into the work of the officers of the
Sanitary Department, and that Sub-Committee, after having held several
meetings and received a report from the Medical Officer of Health as to
the work of the various officers of his department, submitted the following
report to the Sanitary Committee on the 2nd December, who approved
same, and recommended it to the Vestry for adoption, by whom it was, on
the nth December, confirmed:—
1. From time to time the attention of the Vestry has been unpleasantly
drawn to the friction, the delays, the unsatisfactory results, and
the unnecessary expense to the property-holders, resulting from the dual
control in regard to House Drainage Reconstructions. We are strongly of
opinion that the whole of such works should be carried out by the Officers
of the Sanitary Committee under the supervision of its Medical Officer of
Health, and we also recommend that one of the Drainage Inspectors be
transferred from the Works to the Sanitary Department, so as to supervise
and be responsible under the Medical Officer of Health for the proper
carrying out of the house drainage works ordered by the Sanitary Officers
of the Vestry. This is the more desirable as the Surveyor is already over
whelmed with detail work, which would thus, in part, be removed to the
Medical Officer of Health—whose duties, we gather upon enquiry, to be
by no means of a continuous character.
2. Whilst we are of opinion that the Sanitary Inspectors carry out
their functions in a thorough and earnest manner; and whilst we recognise
that their position under the Public Health and other Acts, as well as by the
Vestry's Bye-laws, requires them, in many cases, to report and act under the
Sanitary Authority immediately, we have clearly recognized that there is a
loss of purpose, owing to a certain lack of direction and control by the
Medical Officer of Health.
We, therefore, advise that the Sanitary Inspectors and the Drainage
Inspector proposed to be transferred shall report daily to the Medical Officer
of Health, on forms to be kept in books—separately assigned to each
Inspector—as to their work on the previous day (see Form appended "A").