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of Health, under sec. 38 of the Housing of the
Working Classes Act, certifying that the house,
6½, Bishop's Court, by reason of its proximity to
the other houses in the Court stops ventilation, and
otherwise conduces to make the other houses in
Bishop's Court unfit for human habitation. The
proceedings provided by the Act ensued, the
Surveyor's estimate of the cost of acquiring and
pulling down the property being £125. The
owners were invited to attend the Vestry on the
7th January, but the only person who attended
represented a Building Society, which was mortgagee
of the interest of Mr. B. Smith, who had less
than twentyone years' lease, and was therefore not
an owner within the meaning of the Act. The
solicitor to the freeholder wrote that the property
was in Chancery, and the trustees could not give
any consents or take any course without obtaining
the approval of the Court, and would not therefore
attend, but they would however be glad to sell the
property, but he added that the Surveyor's estimate
was wholly inadequate. After considering the
matter, the Vestry adjourned the further consideration
until after Bolton Court has been dealt with,
under the same section of the Act.
Notification of Infectious Disease.—The
Vestry have been vigilant in insisting upon the
provision of the law being complied with, with
reference to the prompt notification to them as the
sanitary authority of cases of those diseases which
are a source of danger to the community, as defined
by the Infectious Diseases Notification Act, and
subsequently by the Public Health (London) Act,
and have felt it to be their duty to institute proceedings
in some cases for a breach of the law.
The Vestry have had before them a letter from
the Vestry of Chelsea, suggesting that Erysipelas