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spector in attending to complaints, in the preparation
of notices, and in business connected with
proceedings at the Police Court, resolved that it
was necessary to appoint an additional Officer,
whose sole duty it should be to assist in carrying
out the systematic house to house visitation which
the apprehended advent of Cholera rendered so
necessary. Accordingly, a temporary Assistant
was appointed, who was employed from the 25th
of May until the end of September, when his
services were discontinued on account of ill health.
During the prevalence of the epidemic, a second
Assistant was engaged (as Has been already stated
in the Report of the Special Committee), who
after its decline was employed in similar duties
under the order of the Sanitary Committee. On the
5th of February the Office of Assistant Inspector
was made permanent; his principal duty being to
visit in each week such houses as he should be
instructed by the Medical Officer of Health to
inspect, and to report daily on their condition.
The Canal Basin.
I have this year little to add to the long history
of the transactions of the Sanitary Committee with
reference to the Canal Basin. Early in the summer
some correspondence took place between
myself, on behalf of the Committee, and the Company,
as to the process of dredging which was then
being carried on in the neighbourhood of Warwick
Crescent, to the great annoyance of the