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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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engineers and other scientific persons; and this Vestry
???eem it essential to the objects in view, that the question
of the practicability of a plan for deodorising such
sewage should undergo immediate consideration by
means of experiments, so as, if possible, to prevent the
serious evils which they think will ensue if such deo???orisation
is attempted at Barking Creek.
improved approaches from the strand to
coventry street.
In accordance with the Fourth Annual Report, a
plan of the proposed New Street, and a Memorial to
the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works, pressing
for the adoption of the plan, have been prepared and
submitted to the Right Honourable William Cowper,
Her Majesty's Chief Commissioner, who has received a
deputation from the Committee, and promised to give
the subject due consideration.
conclusion.
The Vestry beg to congratulate the Parishioners on
the present state of the Parish; and have no reason to
doubt that so long as the vigilance of the Vestry, and
of the Officers of the Vestry, remain unrelaxed, the
Parish will continue to maintain the character it has
hitherto held of being well and economically governed.
J. DANGERFIELD,
Vestry Clerk.
Vestry Hall,
June, 1861.