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The question of tuberculosis also came before the Vestry at the
meeting on the 21st March, on a letter from the Vestry of Westminster,
drawing attention to the frequency with which milk and
cream are infected with tubercle bacilli, and to the spread of this
disease through this medium. A resolution was adopted by the
authority directing that representation be made to the Board of
Agriculture and the Local Government Board pointing out the
necessity and advisability of so varying the provisions of the Dairies,
Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, 1885, as to make it include the
case of a cow with disease of the udder, which shall have been
certified by a veterinary surgeon to be suffering from tubercular
disease, and further that any cow found to be suffering from
tuberculous disease should be condemned to be slaughtered, and
such parts destroyed as shall be considered unfit for human food and
dangerous to health if so used, and suggesting that compensation
should be paid to the owner, provided that at the time of seizure the
animal was of no less value than £10.
Female
Sanitary
Inspector.
The advisability of appointing an additional Female Inspector
came before the Vestry on the 21st March, 1899, on a report from
the Committee that very successful work had been carried
out by the present Inspector with regard to houses let in
lodgings, and the Medical Officer of Health reported that
there was still a large number of houses in the parish which could be
registered under the Tenement Bye-Laws.
The Vestry determined to appoint an additional female Sanitary
Inspector at a salary of £110 per annum rising by annual increments
to a maximum of £150, subject to the approval of the Local Government
.Board.
Loan of
ill,100.
Works Committee.
Early in the year 1898, it was determined to erect new workshops
at the King James Street Yard, in accordance with plans and
estimates which had been prepared by the Surveyor, at
an estimated cost ot £350. On the 3rd May, 1898, resolutions
were adopted for paving the portion of the carriage-way in the
Waterloo Road, opposite the Board School, and also the portion of
the c arnage-way ot Borough Boad, opposite the Library, with Jarrah
wood blocks, the net estimated cost amounting to £293,