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Act, that this Act is not sufficient to prevent even the worst forms of "jerrybuilding."
In my last report I expressed the opinion that the County Council
should have power to make a bye-law to the effect " That a person shall not
let nor occupy any new dwelling house until such dwelling house shall, after
examination, have been certified by an officer of the sanitary authority
authorised to give such certificate, to be, in his opinion, in every respect fit
for human habitation."
The matter has been under the consideration of the Public Health
Committee of the Council, who recommended the Council to apply to Parliament
for powers to make this bye-law and the report was adopted by the
Council, but the Parliamentary Committee, in whose hands the draughting
of Bills lies, were advised by the Parliamentary Agent that there would be
but little chance of the Council being able to get a bill to this effect through
Parliament, consequently it was determined not to proceed with the matter
during the present Session.
Prosecutions under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and Metropolis Local Management Acts.