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Paddington 1857

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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C. MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS.
I. The Canal Basin.
The efforts made during the preceding year to
induce the Grand Junction Canal Company to
improve the Canal Basin having proved abortive,
it became my duty again, in conjunction with the
surveyor, to draw attention to the subject. Special
reports from the surveyor and myself were presented
to the Sanitary Committee on the 21st of
May, and referred to the Vestry, in consequence of
which a deputation was appointed to confer with
the Directors, and press upon them the necessity of
carrying out such improvements as were recommended
by the surveyor.
The deputation attended the Board of Directors
on the 28th of July, and were assured that the subject
should be carefully considered, and the result
communicated. A letter was accordingly received,
dated July 30th, 1837, and presented to the
Sanitary Committee at its next meeting, in which
the Directors proposed to cleanse the Canal during
the winter months, in so far as such cleansing
could be effected by the use of hand-dredge; but
declined to empty it, and remove the mud by
spade, as suggested by the Committee.
The process of hand dredging was in operation
for several months last winter, during which period
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