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2 OCTOBER, 1891.
141
(8) That your Committee received a letter from the Vestry
Clerk of St. George-in-the-East, enclosing plans, &c. of proposed
flushing tanks to the Commercial Road sewer to be
erected at Cannon Street Road and Sidney Street, at an estimated
cost of £300 each, and enquiring if this Vestry would
agree to pay a moiety of the cost, and of the water used at
the Cannon Street Road tank.
That having fully considered the matter your Committee
resolved to recommend—That this Vestry agree to the construction
by the Vestry of St. George-in-the-East, in connection
with the sewer in the Commercial Road, of two flushing
tanks as shown in the plans submitted, the estimated cost to
this Vestry being £300, and further that the Vestry agree to
pay half the cost of the water used at the Cannon Street
Road tank.
(9) That your Committee viewed a special form of flushing
apparatus in action at Messrs. Merryweather's factory in Long
Acre, and finding that such apparatus, which is worked by
steam power, is much more effective as a cleansing apparatus
than ordinary hose pipes, resolved to recommend—That the
special apparatus be hired from Messrs. Merryweather, for
one month at an estimated cost of £20, and further that at
the end of that time your Surveyor be directed to report on
the work done by the apparatus.
(10) That your Committee received a letter from the Vestry of
Chelsea enclosing a copy of a Report of their Medical Officer
of Health (Dr. Louis C. Parkes) on the subject of notification
of Erysipelas under the Infectious Diseases (Notification)
Act, 1889, and resolved to recommend—That this Vestry
agree with the Vestry of Chelsea in their representations to
the Local Government Board to secure the limitation of
Erysipelas as a notifiable disease under the Infectious Diseases
(Notification) Act, 1889, to the non-traumatic or
idiopathic cases, or failing that to have it expunged from
the Act altogether.
(11) That your Clerk submitted the Award of the Arbitrator in
the case of Nott against the Vestry as follows:—
"Whereas by an Order made at the Sittings of Nisi Prius,
held at the Royal Courts of Justice in and for the County of
Middlesex, on the 16th day of April, 1891, before the
Honourable Mr. Justice Hawkins, on the trial of a cause 1889
N. No. 611, in which Emily Louisa Nott was Plaintiff, and
the Vestry of the Hamlet of Mile End Old Town in the
County of Middlesex were Defendants. It was ordered that
the Jury should be discharged, and that the cause should be
tried by me, Lumley Smith, Q.C. who should have all the
powers as to certifying and amending of a Judge of the High
Court of Justice, and should direct Judgment to be entered,
and otherwise deal with the whole matter pursuant to Order