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1. The strict sanitary supervision and maintenance of
existing houses.
2. The strict enforcement of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1.891, as it affects house property and overcrowding,
as far as is practicable and equitable.
3. Action under Part II. of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act for houses and small areas which are
beyond repair, when necessary (and, where action
possible, under Part III).
4. To urge the importance of improvement in transit.+
+ Without some improved means of transt (cheap and rapid) the carrying
out of the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act and the
Public Health (London) Act, must involve the incurrence of considerable
hardship upon persons it was the object of these Acts to assist, and in this
and other ways, a satisfactory early solution of the housing problem in
Central London is largely impracticable and ineffectual.