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PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
Further Powers.
In my Report for the half-year ending 31st December, 1901, I called
attention to the disadvantages under which your officers worked owing to the
absence of Bye-laws dealing with water closets and other sanitary conveniences.
Subsequent experience confirmed the necessity of obtaining further powers,
and I again referred to it in 1905, with the result that your Committee
instructed Mr. Solicitor and myself to report on the question, with a result
that an application was made to the Local Government Board in February,
1906, for the assignment of further powers.
Upon representations duly made in accordance therewith, the Local
Government Board, after careful consideration of the application, ordered an
Enquiry to be held, and this took place at the Guildhall on the 29th October
last, before Theodore Thompson, Esq., C.M.G., M.D., Barrister-at-Law.
The following Public Bodies and Municipal Boroughs were represented in
opposition to the application of the Port Sanitary Authority:—
London County Council, by Mr. Corrie Grant, K.C., M.P.
City of Westminster, by their Town Clerk, Mr. J. Hunt.
Corporation of West Ham, by Mr. Edward Morten.
Borough of Southwark, by Mr. Manisty, K.C., with him,
Mr. R. I. Simey.
Borough of Bermondsey, by Mr. Walter Frampton.
Borough of Chelsea, by their Town Clerk, Mr. Holland.
Borough of Fulham, by Mr. R. M. Prescott.
Borough of Lambeth, by Mr. Henry J. Smith.
Borough of Woolwich, by their Town Clerk, Mr. Bryceson.
Borough of Battersea, by Mr. Caudwell.
Borough of Poplar, by their Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Alexander.
Borough of Stepney, by their Town Clerk.
The Corporation of London were represented by Mr. Cunningham Glen
(instructed by the City Solicitor), and in attendance were the Assistant City
Solicitor and Medical Officers of Health for the City and Port of London.
The following is the text of the formal notice convening the Enquiry :—