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Yestry to wait upon the Bermondsey Vestry in support thereof, and the Clerk was
instructed to write to the Vestry of Bermondsey, asking them to receive such Deputation :
Messrs. Bisley, Vice-Chairman, Messrs. Beasley,
F. T. Talbot, J. Brown and
Stuart, Mullenger.
Moss,
The matter had not proceeded further at the close of the year.
A letter was received from the Vestry of St. Marylebone, forwarding copy communication
addressed by them to the Local Government Board, with reference to the cleansing of
footways under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, after a fall of snow, by the Sanitary
Authority, urging upon the Board to initiate legislation with the view to the reimposition of
that particular work upon the occupiers and owners of the several frontages, but the Vestry
being of opinion that that duty was very properly thrown upon the shoulders of the local
authority under the Act—Resolved to take no action in the matter.
A letter was received from the Hon. Secretary of the British Institute of Public Health
re London Congress, 1894, asking the Vestry to appoint delegates from among the Members
and Officers to attend the Congress.
The Vestry Resolved that Messrs. F. T. Talbot and R. L. Stuart, and the Surveyor,
Medical Officer of Health, and Chief Sanitary Inspector attend on behalf of the Vestry.
The following is a copy of the resolutions passed thereat:—
"That, while the necessary provision of Block Dwellings for the Housing of the
Working Classes is being pushed forward within the Metropolis and other
large towns, it is desirable that every effort should also be made to increase the
number of Cottage Dwellings in the most accessible suburbs of London and
other large towns, especially in connection with the railway systems.
"That this Conference instructs the Executive of the British Institute of Public
Health to press upon the Government the necessity of making it compulsory