[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster].

  • St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1898
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    34 Wards 1 and 3, St. John. Bye-Laws as to Cleansing and Covering Cisterns used for Storage of Drinking Water. It was found necessary to take legal proceedings in three cases under this Bye-Law, fines and costs amounting to £7 16s. 6d. being imposed. Attorney-General v. Brownrigg. A letter was received by the Vestry dated February 24th from Mr. Warrington Rogers, as follows:— re Appeal against so much of Judgment of Mr. Justice Kekewich as related to Insanitary Nuisance. I beg to inform you that this matter came before the Court on Thursday last, when the appeal was allowed, the Judges finding by way of declaration in favour of the Vestry, that Sir H. Brownrigg was legally bound to prevent the land in question from continuing to be a public nuisance, and that the Attorney-General was entitled to the injunction to enforce the performance by him of such duty, liberty to the Attorney-General to apply to the Judge for such injunction, if necessary, the Defendant to pay the cost of the action, so far as it was dismissed against the Defendant without costs, and also to pay the costs of the appeal. Bye-laws with respect to house drainage. The Works Committee received a letter from the London County Council, dated 18th December, 1896, forwarding draft of bye-laws with respect to house drainage, proposed to be made under section 202 of the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and intimating that any observations which the Vestry, with whom the enforcement of the bye-laws within the parish would rest, may wish to make, should be forwarded by the 16th January, but adding that the draft had been the subject of very careful consideration and of long correspondence with the Local Government Board, and that the Council would probably not be able to make numerous and material alterations at that time. In connection therewith, the Committee received a letter from the Islington Vestry, dated 12th January, transmitting copy of a letter addressed to the County Council, urging the necessity of further time for consideration; and a letter from the Kensington Vestry, dated 14th January, with copy of a letter addressed by them to the Local Government Board, requesting that confirmation of the proposed bye-laws should be withheld until the local authorities have had
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