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THE "UNEMPLOYED.
The unusually prolonged frost during the winter
brought in its train, as might be expected, a certain
amount of suffering and distress among those who were
deprived of work by the inclemency of the weather.
The snowstorms and the sheets of ice in the public parks,
however, afforded temporary employment to a large number
of unskilled labourers in this and other Parishes, and no
doubt tended to prevent the number of persons in receipt of
poor-law relief increasing, at least in western London, to
the extent that might have been anticipated. A communication
which the Yestry received from the President of the
Local Government Board, on the subject of relief works
had in fact been anticipated by the employment of a large
number of men in the work of snow removal.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HYGIENE AND
DEMOGRAPHY.
Upon the invitation of Sir Douglas Galton, Chairman of
the Organizing Committee, the Vestry have nominated
two of their members to attend this Congress, which is to
be held in August next under the presidency of the Prince
of Wales. The Yestry have also intimated their desire to
afford every facility for any members of the Congress
inspecting the arrangements in use in this Parish for the
disinfection of clothing and bedding, the reception of the
dead and other details of sanitary work.