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Committee of the London County Council should at the same
time act as the licensing Authority and the objecting Authority,
and inasmuch as the Borough Council had already, in the performance
of their duty, as recently transferred to them by the London
Government Act, required certain alterations to be made in these
premises, so that no objection should be taken to the granting of
the license, considerable feeling was aroused in the minds of the
occupiers of the premises, which I am bound to admit was only
very natural. This action of the County Council led to considerable
correspondence between the officials of the two Authorities,
as a result of which the County Council promised that in future
when they proposed to object to the license of any premises, they
would notify this Authority as to such objection. During the past
year we have carried out the inspection of these various premises
from time to time, to see that the By-laws and Regulations were
complied with, and otherwise to carry out the duties of the Local
Authority as the Sanitary Authority for the district, and again
upon receiving the formal notices of application for renewal of
licenses for the various cowsheds in the Borough, a special inspection
of the premises was made, and a report thereon
presented to the Public Health Committee, when the Committee
decided that objection should be taken to none of the premises
other than those at 101, Westcombe Hill, which appeared to be
permanently fitted up as an engineer's shop. The decision of the
Committee was in due course transmitted to the London County
Council, and to our surprise, just four days before the meeting of
the Licensing Committee of that Council, I received from them
notices to the effect that they were objecting to the renewal of two
cowhouse licenses, namely, that at 101, Westcombe Hill, on
similar grounds to our own, and also to the two sheds which