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sioners, or other persons having authority in or over
such port or any part thereof, the sanitary authority
for the whole port, by provisional order of the Local
Government Board; and with respect to the Port of
London he leaves it open for Parliament to decide
which of the authorities shall be the sanitary authority
for the port. Considering, however, that the
Conservators of the River Thames are already the
sanitary authorities of the port as regards the protection
of the river from pollution, and that their
authority extends from Staines, in the county of
Middlesex, to Cricklade, in the county of Wilts,
with power over the moorings of all vessels in the
port, and having a staff of officers conversant with
every part of the port, it appears to me that they
would be best able to carry out the sanitary inspection
of the port, and that they should be named in
Mr. Stansfeld's Bill as the Sanitary Authority for
the Port of London—the expenses thereof being
defrayed in the manner prescribed in the 20th Section
of the Bill—that is, from a common fund to be
contributed by the several sanitary authorities of
the whole of the metropolis in such proportions as
the Local Government Board thinks just.
Disinfecting Place, and Mortuary Chamber.
Since the date of my last yearly Report, the provisions
of the 23rd, 24th, 27th, and 28th sections of