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Tour Committee also visited the Sewage Outfall Works at Barking
Creek, and the Beckton Gas Works of the Gas Light and Coke
Company, and have made arrangements for a similar Committee to
visit each of these places should that be the pleasure of the Vestry.
Your Committee beg to state that what they heard at the
Meetings of the Congress and the valuable information they gathered
from visits to the above places will, undoubtedly, be very useful
to them in fulfilling their duties as Members of the Board.
In conclusion, your Committee beg to express their best thanks to
the Board for the confidence reposed in them by appointing them as
Delegates to the Congress, and also to the Organizing and Reception
Committees of the Congress for the cordial greeting and hospitable
reception accorded to them at every meeting they had the honour
and pleasure to attend.
{Signed) W. R. PUTTERILL.
ALFRED J. DIXIE.
EVAN JONES.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.—This
most important Act of Parliament consolidates the
various sanitary and other Acts dealing with the
public health of the Metropolis, in addition to
making many new provisions. It is a Government
measure introduced by the President of the Local
Government Board, and received great attention
from the local authorities during its passage through
Parliament, this Vestry among many others presenting
a petition for amendments. Among the
important alterations made in the law by this
measure may be enumerated the following:—
The transfer of the duty of cleansing footways from the occupiers
or owners of the houses abutting thereon to the Sanitary Authorities.
[In view of the almost impracticable character of this clause in
times of snow, great efforts were made to eliminate this provision
from the Bill (which did not contain it when it was introduced, the
clause being added by the Grand Committee) but notwithstanding
the opposition of Mr. Ritchie himself, who had charge of the
measure, it was retained, and now forms part of the Act.]
The liability to a fine of any employe of a Vestry who
demands a fee for the removal of house refuse.
The liability of the sanitary authority to a fine for non
removal of dust within a specified time.