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missioner of Police, who replied that under the existing
arrangement there is more supervision than if the costermongers'
market were in one division, and that the special
attention of the police has been directed to the locality.
On the question of Sunday Trading the Vestry issued
notices prohibiting such trading on the public way, but it
soon appeared that several of those tradesmen who signed
the petition to the Vestry only did so as a means of getting
rid of the competition of the costermongers, for they themselves
continued to trade as before. The Vestry, therefore,
issued a further notice, confining such tradiug to the insides
of the shops, and giving notice that no stall board
will be allowed outside the shops on Sundays.
The Vestry have also decided to sweep Chapel Street at
5 o'clock on Sunday mornings instead of at midnight on
Saturdays as heretofore.
Disinfection of Cabs.-In August, 1886, the Vestry
received a letter from the Commissioner of Police on the
question of disinfecting Cabs which may have conveyed a
person suffering from contagious or infectious disease, and
asking whether the Vestry would undertake the disinfection
of same, and also whether a certificate could be given
to the driver that his cab was disinfected. The Vestry
considered the subject, and replied to the Commissioner
that it was prepared to provide for the disinfection of
cabs belonging to parishioners, or which may have conveyed
parishioners, of Clerkenwell on payment of a reasonable
fee Up to the present time, however, the Vestry has
not been required to fulfil its promise.
Eggs unfit for Food.—The Vestry have experienced a
difficulty in the carrying out of the Acts relating to unwholesome
food in the case of eggs. Some 12,000 bad
eggs were seized, and the Yestry wished to take proceed-