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AUDITORS.
In April, a ballot was taken for Auditors to audit the
Accounts of the Board for the financial year 1893-4, with the
result that the following were elected by the highest number of
votes, viz:
Mr. Aubrey Hyman
Mr. J. J. Nicholls St. Saviour
Mr. John Dyer Field - Christchurch.
The Accounts were duly audited on the 24th May, and a
copy of the Auditors' certificate will be found on pages 80 and 81.
SANITARY CONDITION OF THE DISTRICT.
The Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor
having, in the year 1892, asked the Local Government Board to
cause an Inquiry to be made into the sanitary condition of the St.
Saviour's District, that Board suggested that the Mansion House
Council should submit to the London County Council particulars
of the cases in which they considered this Board had made default.
The Mansion House Council thereupon, on the 30th of March,
1892, communicated to the County Council the particulars of
certain cases, and asked the County Council to exercise its
powers under Sections 100 and 101 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, and the Medical Officer of Health of the
County Council (Mr. Shirley F. Murphy) was instructed to
report on the sanitary condition and administration of the
district.
He has now done so, his report being dated the 23rd of
December, 1893.
Referring to the lists of alleged defects supplied by the
Mansion House Council, numbering altogether 1029, Mr. Murphy
remarks as follows:—
"In more than one half of these houses the defects pointed out by
the Mansion House Council had been remedied at the time of my
inspection, and in the remaining houses notices had in almost every
case been served, and in many instances the houses had been closed or
works were in progress."
After giving copious statistical information as to the nature
of the soil, area, population, birth rate, mortality, &c., of the
district, and other particulars, and referring to the Mortuary in
Ewer Street, which he condemns as being unsuitable for the
purpose, Mr. Murphy proceeds as follows:—
"Disinfection.—For the purposes of disinfection, the sanitary
authority has provided an oven which is situated in a railway arch
adjoining that used as a mortuary. The oven is heated by gas, and is