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Thus it will be seen that the committee has awarded the sum of
£77 10s. 3d., as compensation in 48 cases, all of which were stated by
the medical officer as cases of cholera or choleraic diarrhoea, and the value
of each article destroyed ascertained and reported by the assistant
inspector, and every case was carefully gone into and considered by the
committee.
Your committee have reported to the Yestry as to the arrears of
sanitary business in the parish, with suggestions as to the remedies which
in their opinion are expedient; and which report is now under your consideration.
Your committee have been informed by the medical officer, that the
temporary Hospital for cholera patients in Commercial-street, was closed
on Saturday, the 3rd inst.; and they cannot make this report, without
expressing to the officers managing the arrangements of that establishment,
and all the persons connected therewith, their grateful acknowledg
ment for the benefit received by the poor of this parish, and they have
instructed the clerk to communicate such acknowledgments to the proper
quarter.
Your committee have also had their attention drawn to the great
benefit that would be derived by substituting in the place of a temporary
Hospital, a permanent institution, to be erected as near as possible to the
parish of Shoreditch, for the reception of all cases of fever arising within
the eastern districts of the metropolis, and which suggestion your committee
has forwarded to the Honorary Secretary of the late temporary
Cholera Hospital.
Your committee feel, at this stage of its proceedings, it cannot help
expressing its satisfaction at the manner in which its orders have been
carried into execution by the several officers under their control, who
have been most assiduous in their efforts to perform the duties entrusted
to them.
Your committee beg to lay before the Vestry, an account of the expenses