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the number of occupants of houses tenanted by more than
family, and for registration of such houses; and Rules, in accords
therewith, were drawn up by the Medical Officer, but the Sanits
Committee, after careful consideration of the subject, were of opi???
that, looking to the powers already possessed by the Board,
benefits which might accrue from putting the Clause in force we
not (in St. Saviour's) be commensurate with the inconvenience ???
expense necessarily attending its enforcement.
The usual tabulated statements of the Medical Officer and Sanit ???
Inspector's labors, and the works resulting from house to hot
visitations, are appended to the Report of the former, at page 15.
Since the date of their last Annual Report, the Board have p???
sented Petitions and Memorials as under, viz. : to Parliament
against the Metropolitan Improvement Rate Bill, and in favor of ???
second reading of the Metropolitan Gas Bill, with a view to its be ???
considered before a Committee of the House of Commons : to ???
Metropolitan Board, in reference to the Traffic Regulation Bill; a
to the President of the Privy Council, praying for Inquiry into ???
Provisions of the Vaccination Act, with a view to better precaution
being taken for preventing unsuccessful or insufficient operations.
An inspection of the several passages and places near the water
side, through which the Board possess a right of way, was, on the
7th of November last, made by the Paving Committee, accompaniment
by twelve boys from St. Saviour's and six from Christchur???
National Schools, resulting in several encroachments and obstruction
being discovered and checked. It was found that a warehouse h???
been erected over a passage formerly known as Bull Alley, ???
Christchurch, without consent of the Board to appropriate the s???
of such passage, and the owner or lessees of the warehouse have
been required to sign an Agreement acknowledging the rights of the
Board, and reserving a nominal rental in respect of the ground
occupied.
A portion of Bridge Street, Southwark, extending from Southwark
Street to Union Street, has been paved with new Granite cubes
part of Union Street has been repaved,f and other paving and
sewerage works have been executed, details of which as to quantities
will be found in the Surveyor's Report.
Mr. Benthall, the recent Contractor for Paviors' and Masons
work in the Clink and Christchurch, being unable to carry out his
Contracts to the satisfaction of the Board, the same were determined
by mutual arrangement at Christmas last, and fresh Contracts have
since been entered into by Messrs. Mowlem & Co. and Mr. Henry
Booth, for such work in the whole District, and a Contract for
Sewerage works has been entered into, full particulars of all which
are contained in the List of Contracts in force on the 25th of