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the Artizans' Dwellings Act, 30 and 31 Vic., cap. 130, sees.
5 and G, and the amending Acts, and instructed the inspectors
to visit the places and report upon each of the
defects specified. The inspectors submitted, from time to
time, their reports as to the sanitary condition of the places
mentioned by the Mansion House Council, and the Committee
gave instructions as to the remedial measures to be
adopted.
The consideration by the Committee of a letter from the
Coroner, alleging misconduct on the part of the mortuary
keeper led, after a painstaking inquiry into the circumstances
of the case, to the framing of regulations for the
use of the mortuary, which received the approval of the
Vestry on the 14th November.
Joint
Committee
Acting upon a reference by the Vestry on 27th
June, 1888, the Sanitary Committee sat jointly
with the Works and General Purposes Committee to consider
and report upon the question of improving the system
of inspection, of obtaining a service of street cleansing,
watering, and dusting more commensurate with the present
payments and requirements, and of rendering the general
sanitary administration of the parish more efficient.
The Committee, on 28th November, submitted a lengthy
report to the Vestry, of which the following is an abstract,
viz.:—
The desirability of "obtaining a service of street cleansing, watering,
and dusting, more commensurate with modern payments and
requirements" having been assented to by the Vestry, your
Committee applied themselves at once to the consideration of
the probable requirements of the Vestry in the matter of wharf
accommodation for such a service. Your Committee next
received plans from the surveyor, and by their Sub-Committee
inspected the premises named below, with reference to their
suitability for the requirements of the Vestry:—
Wharf No. 1.—Approached by an easement from High Street,
Vauxhall: superficial area, 17,000 feet; river frontage, 170
feet; no stabling; rent, £800 per annum.
Wharf No. 2.—In Grosvenor Road, opposite Bessborough Place;
superficial area, about 20,600 feet; river frontage, 130 feet;