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factory subject to the provisions of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1878, relating to cleanliness, ventilation
and overcrowding, and is so overcrowded
while work is carried on as to be injurious or
dangerous to the health of those employed therein,
shall be a nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily
under the Act. The Vestry are of opinion that 250
cubic feet should be the minimum air space for each
employee, this minimum being only permitted when
careful regard is given to ventilation, and they have
instructed the Inspectors accordingly.
They have considered a letter from the London
County Council, with which was forwarded a report
of Dr. Hamer on the sanitary condition of workshops
which had been inspected in various parishes
in the Metropolis, asking what steps the Vestry was
taking to carry out the provisions of the Act, and
they replied that the Inspectors are carrying out
such inspection, and stated the decisions of the
Vestry with reference to closet accommodation and
overcrowding above referred to.
Cholera.—In August, 1892, the Vestry received
a commimication from the Local Government
Board that the Board had received information
from the Consul General at Hamburg that Asiatic
Cholera has broken out at Hamburg severely; and
that, having regard to the large amount of traffic
between Hamburg and this country and to the
short time which may elapse between a person
leaving Hamburg for England and arriving in
London, the Board had deemed it necessary to take
into consideration the question of the measures of
a precautionary character which should be adopted
in view of the possible introduction of the disease
into London.