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Particulars of the work done have to be
included in tabular form in the Annual Eeport
of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Committee have the power of issuing
Closing Orders, and the appeal is to the Local
Government Board. The limits of their power
in regard to dealing with unfit houses are only
to be determined by the Local Government Board
with expert sanitary advisers.
In the matter of the particular forms in
which reports on these inspections are collected, I
have, in consultation with the Sanitary Inspector,
prepared forms of our own designs, and I think
that the Committee will find these forms simple
and comprehensive in character, and a useful
method of collecting the reports.
The requirements of the Local Government
Board will be met by the production of these
reports at the meetings of the Sanitary Committee.
The Town Planning, &c., portion of this Act
deals with another subject altogether, and is a
matter of surpassing interest to those who wish
to look ahead, and who, having observed and
noted in what respects they had suffered from
the failures or short sighted policies of their predecessors
in bygone days with respect to the
amenities of the district in which they were concerned,
were now hopeful, by its aid, of being
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