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entrusted, on behalf of the Vestry, with the care and supervision
of all matters relating to the sanitary condition of
the parish, and removal of nuisances therefrom ; with the
superintendence of the execution of the street cleansing,
watering, and dusting contracts, and with the exercise of
all or any of the powers of the Vestry in relation thereto
This comprehensive charter enables the Committee to receive
the reports of the inspectors upon all sanitary defects
discovered by them, to direct the service of notices for the
abatement of nuisances, and to order the issue of proceedings
in all cases of non-compliance The enforcement of the
provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts also devolves
upon the Committee, who are further charged with the duty
of seeing that the few remaining slaughter-houses and cowhouses,
with the bakehouses in the parish, are regularly
visited by the Vestry's officers A large measure of the
Committee's time is necessarily occupied in details and
routine work of an uninteresting character, upon which
reports to the Vestry are rarely necessary; but the business
of the Committee is none the less important on that
account
In consequence of the partial jurisdiction over cow-houses
and slaughter-houses having become transferred from the
late Metropolitan Board of Works to the London County
Council, in whom also had become vested the licensing
powers formerly exercised by the Justices in Special
Sessions, the Committee embraced the opportunity of
discontinuing the annual perambulation and inspection of
these places
A more satisfactory arrangement has been made by the
Committee for the fumigation of rooms and the disinfection
of bedding, &c, in cases of infectious disease, where the
persons are unable, by reason of poverty, to obtain the
execution of the necessary work All that is needful in
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