15 SEPTEMBER 1849, Page 9

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SATURDAY.

The Board of Health is taking energetic steps against recusant local au- thorities who violate or neglect its orders: last night's Gazette contains in- structions signed by two of the Commissioners, Lord Ashley and Mr. Edwin Chadwick, authorizing Mr. Austin, Secretary of the Commission, to prosecute the Poor-law Guardians of the City of London and Greenwich Unions; the Churchwardens of St. Margaret's Westminster, and St. Sa- viour's Southwark; and the Managers of the Tottenham Court Road Chapel.