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tho negotiations between the Council and the
Tottenham and Wood Green Local Authorities,
with respect to the drainage of Clerkenwell detached,
had not led to a settlement of the question, and
that negotiations had therefore been entered upon
with the Friern Barnet Local Board, which they
had every reason to believe would lead to a successful
issue. At the end of December, 1894, the
Vestry received a letter from the County Council
stating that the Friern Barnet Board had expressed
its willingness to take the sewage on certain terms,
and setting out the conditions asked for so far as they
affected the Vestry. Some of them appeared to be
unnecessarily stringent, and negotiations were proceeding
at the end of the year for their modification.
Sale of Food and Drugs Act.—In June, a letter
was received from the Vestry of St. George,
Hanover Square, inviting the Vestry to appoint two
delegates, with the Public Analyst, to join in a
Conference at that Vestry Hall, to consider the
desirability of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act
being amended so as to bring the manufacturers of,
and wholesale dealers in, adulterated articles within
the scope of their provisions; and also to empower
Inspectors in one district to take samples at the
railway stations in another district from consignments
to vendors in their own district. The Vestry
appointed Mr. Dixie and Mr. Kelly, with the
Analyst, as delegates. The Conference met 011 the
22nd June, and passed a series of resolutions which
the Vestry afterwards considered and approved, and
signified their approval to the Select Committee
appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into
the working of the Acts, with the request that
evidence might be called before the Committee in
support of the views urged in such resolutions,