[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster].

  • St. James, Westminster (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1862
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    XV render those that still exist as little annoyance to the neighbourhood as is consistent with their use fulness. As in the case of sewer ventilation, there is a wide field for ingenuity and invention in this branch of the duties of the Vestry, but I am afraid that the inventive powers of any individual will be taxed to the utmost to suggest unobjectionable sites in the Parish of St. James's, Westminster, although I am induced to mention it for the purpose of bearing record which may some day be useful, that the subject has received a great amount of attention ; further and tolerably full particulars of which may be gathered from the minutes of the proceedings of the Works Committee. It would be superfluous to attempt to report the time and attention that has been bestowed upon the subject of Private Lamps and Projections, as it will be in the recollection of all interested in the subject that it has engaged a great deal of the time and attention of the Vestry, and much more of the Works Committee ; it will be sufficient to state that perhaps the best course that could be adopted is now followed, that is, simply to deal with indi vidual cases upon their respective merits, general rules having been found upon careful consideration to be inapplicable. The most important work of the Vestry during the past twelvemonth has undoubtedly been the erection of the New Vestry Hall and Offices on the site of the previous Vestry Room in Piccadilly, and now approaching completion. All the preliminary