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17,870. Did you ever hear that they were had or unworthy
members of the Islington Vestry?—Never; on the contrary one
of the best members of the Islington Vestry that I ever
heard of, who was churchwarden successively for many years,
but who is dead now, happened to be Mr. Vousley, a publican.
He was one of the most efficient and respectable men in public
work that I ever knew.
17,871. (The Earl Brownlow.) With regard to sanitary inspectors,
are they required to keep a journal of what places they
visit?—They are expected to keep a diary of how they are
employed every day.
17,872. Who examines the diary?—It is supposed to be laid
upon the committee table at the time that they meet. That is
not always done; the committee do not always insist upon
seeing it.
17,873. You stated that you thought Lord William Compton
was not competent to give evidence as to the neglect of duty on
the part of the sanitary inspectors in Clerkenwell; but I suppose
that if you have those diaries in your possession you would be
able to produce documentary evidence to refute Lord William
Compton's statement?—Possibly, if dates and particulars were
given.
17,874. Do you happen to have the diaries with you?—No, I
have not, but I spoke merely generally when I said that Lord
William Compton could not be peisonally acquainted with the
matter which he referred to.
17,875. (The Chairman.) I wish first to supply the deficiencies
in my examination in which I alluded to statements of witnesses
without actually quoting them. That statement with regard to
Mr. Ross' property in St. Bartholomew Square by Mr. Dawes
the vicar of St. Mary, Charterhouse, is in answer to question
3878. As to that you stated that you did not know ?—I did.
17.876. Then the statement made by Mr. Boodle with regard
to Mr. Ball is in answer to question 3637, and the words in his
answer are, "What I complain of in Mr. Ball and others is not
"that they have not done the work originally "(that is to say,
the work required under the leases) "but that they have since
"neglected the houses, and that in many cases they are very
"extortinate in their demands against the occupants." That
would not be your opinion ?—No.
17,877. There is only one other matter about which I wish to
ask you. Some prejudice has, perhaps, been raised against the
vestry of Clerkenwell by what Lord William Compton has
described in answer to question 724 as the extraordinary violence
of their language. Have you anything to say upon that point ?