[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George].

  • Hanover Square (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    20 Authority of this Parish, if you adopted the compulsory notification of Measles, as if it could be shown that any real advantage to the health of the community would accrue from it, I have not the slightest doubt that you would be willing to incur the necessary expense; but as I am quite satisfied that no benefit, in any way commensurate with the enormous expense that would have to be incurred, would result, I cannot recommend you to petition the Local Government Board to add Measles to the list of notifiable diseases. The following Joint Report by the Medical Officer of Health and the Surveyor, on the By-laws [proposed to be] made by the London County Council for regulating the dimensions, form, and mode of construction and the keeping, cleansing and repairing of the pipes, drains and other means of communicating with sewers and the traps and apparatus connected therewith, was submitted to your Vestry in January, 1897, by Mr. Livingstone and myself:— We have carefully considered the proposed By-laws and beg to suggest that the following alterations be recommended by the Vestry:— Rain water pipes. By-law 2.—We consider that the waste-pipes of sinks (other than slop-sinks), baths and lavatory basins, should be allowed to be connected with rain-water pipes and open channels, especially as the model By-laws of the Local Government Board require such waste-pipes to be discharged over open channels (By-laws with respect to new streets and buildings, No. 66); a By-law forbidding the connection of the waste-pipes of baths and lavatory basins, at any rate, with rain-water pipes, would certainly tend to discourage the use of baths and lavatories in small houses. By-law 3. (Concrete.)—We consider that a stone ware pipe drain need only be covered with 4-in. of concrete.