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

  • St. James, Westminster (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1894
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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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    19 convenient here to enumerate the more important functions of that body, viz.:— (1) Paving, cleansing, watering, and lighting the public streets. (2) Constructing, maintaining, and cleansing local sewers, public conveniences, etc. (3) Supervising the construction, alteration, and amendment of the drains and sanitary arrange ments of dwelling-houses and other buildings. (4) Preventing, removing, and abating nuisances injurious to health, disinfecting after sickness &c. (5) Regulating projections into the public streets, and annoyances of various kinds. (6) Preserving, as far as possible, freedom from adul teration in articles of food and medicine. (7) Levying and collecting the rates, from which large and, unfortunately rapidly increasing, sums are paid annually to authorities entirely independent of local control. Upon the last-mentioned point it may be here observed that there has been a growing tendency for some years to include in the local rates various sums for Metropolitan purposes. Thus since the year 1855 the Vestry have at different times been required by Parliament to provide funds for—(a) Main Drainage; (b) Fire Brigade; (c) Elementary Education; (d) Thames Bridges—purchase maintenance, and re-building: (e) Artizans' Dwellings, and other purposes, The extent to which this operates upon b 2