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29 OCTOBER, 1890.
(3) That your Medical Officer of Health brought up and read a
Report for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to
his Report Book.
That your Medical Officer, at a previous meeting reported
as follows:
"During the fortnight ending September 20th, the
"number of Births was 136: the number of Deaths from
"all causes was 86; 53 occurring in the Eastern district,
"22 in the Western district, and 11 in the outlying Institutions,
giving a death-rate equal to 20.0 per 1,000 per
"annum: that of the Metropolis being 16.4 for the same
"period."
and at the last meeting as follows:
"During the fortnight ending October 4th, the num"ber
of Births was 175: the number of Deaths from
"all causes was 97; 46 occurring in the Eastern district,
" 37 in the Western district, and 14 in the outlying
" Institutions, giving a death-rate equal to 20.6 per 1,000
"per annum: that of the Metropolis being 17.0 for the
" same period."
Your Committee resolved to recommend—That the same
be received.
(4) That your Medical Officer of Health presented to your
Committee five representations under the Housing of the
Working Classes' Act, 1890, with regard to the houses 1, 11,
21 and 24, Knott Street, and 37, Ocean Street, which, under
the advice of your Clerk, your Committee directed to be presented
to the Vestry, and your Committee resolved to recommend—That
if satisfied that any of such premises are in a
state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for
human habitation, the Vestry should direct notice to be
served, as provided by such Act, upon the owner of the premises
in such state, requiring him to make such premises
fit for human habitation, and, further, that the several matters
referred to in such representations, should be referred to your
Committee to take such further steps, under the said Act,
as may be necessary to secure compliance with such notice.
(5) That your Committee have considered some of the provisions
of the Housing of the Working Classes' Act, 1890, and
find that the effectual carrying out of the Act, will necessitate
the consideration of a number of details, which your Committee
are of opinion cannot conveniently be discussed in
public; and having regard to the fact that the Act contemplates
the appointment of a Committee by the local authority,
for any of the purposes of the Act; your Committee resolved
to recommend—That the members of the Vestry for the
time being forming the No. 3 Committee for Drainage,