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such complaint, the Medical Officer should neglect to
inspect it and make his official representation, or if in
his opinion the area should be not an unhealthy one
they may appeal to the Confirming Authority. The
Confirming Authority will thereupon send their own
Medical Officer, whose decision given to the Confirming
Authority, and transmitted by them to the Local
Authority, is final, and is to be acted upon as if it were
an original official representation made in the ordinary
way to the Local Authority. If on the other hand the
Medical Officer of the Confirming Authority is satisfied
with the sanitary condition of the area in question, the
twelve ratepayers may be mulcted in costs. If the
Local Authority is slack or refuses to proceed with the
scheme, the Confirming Authority may take the matter
into their own hands.”
There arc parts of our parish, I trust, will benefit by
this Act—Bedfordbury and the courts leading therefrom
in particular; no amount of patching up can make
the houses in this locality fit and proper places for
human habitation; they are so old and dilapidated, the
courts narrow and confincd, thus preventing a free
circulation of air. In my first Report, in the year
1871, I speak of Bedfordbury in the following terms:—
“Bedfordbury, as in former years, appears still to be a
source of trouble. The habits of the people are so
dirty, and the houses old and dilapidated, and not at all
adapted to modern sanitary arrangements. The most
effectual remedy would be to pull the place down and