Fifth Report of the Vestry of the Parish of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex, Appointed Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855: 1860-1

by Charles Lahee

December 29th, 1859.

Dear Sir,—I am directed by the Vestry of this parish to request that, when your Board shall apply to Parliament for the further Amendment of the Metropolis Local Management Act, a clause may be introduced, enacting that so much of the provisions of the 67th and 68th sections of the 57th George the III., cap. 29, being “An Act for better paving, improving, and regulating the streets of the Metropolis, and removing and preventing Nuisances and Obstructions therein,” as relates to the nuisance arising from hog styes, and to the breeding, feeding, and keeping of swine, and suffering them to stray, be extended to the following parishes and places within the Metropolis, which were not, at the time of the passing of the said Act, included in the Weekly Bills of Mortality: that is to say,—Paddington; Camberwell; Chelsea; St. Mary Abbot, Kensington; Woolwich; St. John, Hampstead; St. Paul, Deptford, including Hatcham; St. Nicholas, Deptford; Greenwich; Clapham; Tooting Graveney; Streatham; St. Mary, Battersea, excluding Penge; Wandsworth; Putney; including Roehampton; St. Mary, Stoke Newington; St. Peter and St. Paul, Hammersmith; Fulham; St. Mary, Stratford-le-Bow; and St. Leonard, Bromley: also enacting that the penalties imposed by these sections may be recovered in the manner provided by the 227th section of the Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis, 18th and 19th Vict., cap. 120.

I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Chas. Lahee,
Vestry Clerk.

J. Pollard, Esq.,
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho.

December 29th, 1859.

Dear Sir,—I am directed by this Vestry to request that when your Board shall apply to Parliament for the further Amendment of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120, the 85th section of that Act may be altered by the insertion after the first word “works” of words to the following effect: viz.:—

“And in the case of combined drainage such notice may require that each house of any block of houses drained in combination, or so many thereof as the Vestry or Board shall see fit, shall be drained separately into a sewer.”

I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Chas. Lahee,
Vestry Clerk.

J. Pollard, Esq.,
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho.

January 23rd, 1860.