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With this object thoy once more appeal to the Parishioners
for intelligent co-operation, especially to such as by
their avocations are brought into contact with residents in
the poorer and more crowded districts. The Vestry will
be glad at all times to receive early information of any
nuisance or supposed nuisance.
Another and most valuable mode of assisting and
maintaining a high degree of public health is for each
householder to insist upon scrupulous cleanliness being
observed in the premises under his control.
It cannot be too strongly urged that proper precautions
against infection will also do much to insure immunity
from sickness generally. The great preventitive of disease
is cleanliness—cleanliness in living, cleanliness of person,
and cleanliness of surroundings. The Vestry, as the local
Sanitary Authority, are constantly striving after this
condition of things, but, unless the Parishioners generally
heartily co-operate in their several spheres, a great part of
the work of the Vestry will be rendered nugatory.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS OR OCCUPIED BY
MEMBERS OF MORE THAN ONE FAMILY.
During the year the Public Health Committee had under
consideration the desirability of re-registering certain
houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than
one family under the Byelaws recently made by the
Vestry under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. The
Chairman of the Committee having in conjunction with the
Medical Officer of Health and the Sanitary Inspectors
inspected the various premises in the parish which it was
thought desirable should be registered and reported thereon,
the Vestry decided that certain houses should be so registered,
and the Vestry Clerk was instructed to take the
necessary steps for giving effect to the Vestry's resolution.