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been addressed to that Board by the Mansion House Council on the dwellings of
the People, respecting the Sanitary condition of certain portions of the parish, and
requesting that the Board might be furnished with the observations of the Vestry
upon the subject of the communication, the Vestry caused a reply to the said letter
to be forwarded as follows:—
The Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, Surrev.
Offices—Public Baths,
Lower Road, Rotherhithe,
21 st January, 1888.
Sir,
I am directed by the Vestry to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 6th instant, inclosing copy of a letter dated December 28th,
1887, addressed to the Secretary of the Local Government Board by the
Hon. Secretary of the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the People
and requesting that the Board may be furnished with the observations of the
Vestry on the subject of this communication. In answer, I am directed to state for
the information of the Board that the various communications received from the
Mansion House Council, have, as they came to hand, been immediately referred to
this Vestry to the Sanitary Committee, who have since made a house-to-house
visitation in about half the number of cases referred to, and they are proceeding with
an inspection of the remainder with as much despatch as possible. In all cases where
nuisances were found to exist which the Vestry could deal with notices have been
served, many of which have already been attended to, and in all cases where default is
made the Vestrv will take proceedings to enforce compliance with the Acts of
Parliament.
The Vestry desire me to point out that some months ago they made a similar
visitation of courts and allevs, and they are quite alive to the necessity of enforcing the
proper sanitarv regulations, but owing to the very poor class of people who chiefly