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Company cutting off the water supply from any occupied
dwelling house by reason of the non-payment of water rates
in cases where the owner and not the occupier is liable to
pay the water rate. In addition to this the Public Health
Act of 1891 provides that within twenty-four hours after
cutting off the water supply of any inhabited dwelling house,
the Water Company is to give notice thereof to the local
sanitary authority. Having regard to these facts, the
Vestry did not deem it advisable to co-operate with the
Vestry of Fulham in the direction indicated.
CHOLERA.
In June, 1893, the Vestry received a circular communication
from the Local Government Board calling attention
to their previous letter of the 25th August, 1892, and
forwarding, for the information of the Sanitary Authority,
a copy of a memorandum by the Board's Medical Officer,
from which it appeared that there was reason for Sanitary
Authorities preparing in advance to prevent the extension
of any Cholera that might be imported into their Districts
during tho summer of 1893.
The Local Government Board, in their circular already
referred to, called attention to the powers vested in them
under section 134 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and section
82 (1) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to issue
Epidemic Regulations imposing upon Sanitary Authorities
the duty of making arrangements for the prevention and
treatment of cholera. Those arrangements would comprise
the appointment of Committees for the purpose of carrying
out the Regulations, the division of the sanitary district
into special areas, the appointment of medical visitors for
the visitation of the poorer houses and the detection of