Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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Pillar letter boxes 5
St John's Public Gardens 4
London County Council and main roads 4
Re-naming streets and re-numbering houses 4
Examination of contractors'and tradesmen's accounts 4
Sower ventilators 4
Hoardings under licenses 4
Jurisdiction over College Mews 4
Paved crossings for pedestrians 3
Tree planting in public highways 2
Miscellaneous 17
As considerable correspondence passed between the Vestry
and the London County Council upon several of the more
important of these subjects, the proceedings thereon will
bo noticed hereafter under the head "London County
Council," at page 37
In the transaction of the business represented by the
foregoing summary, the Committee were occupied during
23 sittings, besides which they sat 13 times with the
Street Cleansing and Sanitary Committee, as a Joint
Committee, on the question of improving the system of
street cleansing, watering, and dusting More particular
allusion to this department of the Committee's duties is
made in the report of the Joint Committee at page 22
STREET CLEANSING AND SANITARY COMMITTEE
Twenty-one meetings of this Committee have been held
during the year, Mr H N B Spink having been chosen
Chairman, with Mr J Fergusson as Vice-Chairman In
addition to these attendances the Committee sat 13
times jointly with the Works and General Purposes Committee
in furtherance of a scheme for performing some of
the most important services by labour in the immediate
employment of the Vestry, and independently of contractors
As regards the ordinary duties of the Committee, they are