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not required to give notice in the first instance,
but only in default of some other person, he will
not be liable, to any fine if he satisfies the court
that he had reasonable cause to suppose that the
notice had been duly given.
The Act came into force on the 30th October,
1889, and the Vestry took all necessary steps to
give full effect to the Act, by providing and issuing
to all Medical Practitioners in the parish, as far as
they could be ascertained, notices and forms of
certificate.
City and North of London Railway.—Plans
of a scheme, with this title, were deposited in
November, 1889, but the contemplated works only
affected a few yards of roadway in the Parish, at
the junction of City and Goswell Road. The
scheme, however, was shortly afterwards abandoned.
Old Street, Widening of.—In October, 1889,
the Vestry received the following letter from the
Vestry of St. Luke's :—
St. Luke, Middlesex, Vestry,
Vestry Hall, Cur Road, E.C.,
Octoler 17th, 1889.
Dear Sir,
The completion by the late Metropolitan Board of Works of the
new line of thoroughfare running from Commercial Street to Bloomsbury,
via Clerkenwell Road and Great Eastern Street, of which line
Old Street forms the Central link, has developed, as was anticipated,
an enormous heavy and continuous traffic, and as your Vestry may be
probably aware, the difficulties attending this traffic have been
largely increased by the recent continuation by the North Metropolitan
Tramways Company of their Old Street lines to Gray's Inn
Road and Southampton Row, Holborn, respectively, and the running
of additional cars thereon.
The difficulties and delays experienced by passengers and the
vehicular traffic generally, particularly in the narrow portion of Old
Street at its western end, and the intersection of that street and
Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road, are very considerable, but