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the roadway, tall ventilating shafts be erected wherever practicable and
necessary, there have been erected the following:—
Brick shaft in Cemetery, Fortune Green.
8 in. by 4 in. rectangular shaft against No. 32, Compayne Gardens.
40 ft. steel column, Agamemnon Road.
30 ft. steel column,Gondar Gardens.
Observation will be kept, and the matter further dealt with in my
next Annual Report.
Conference on the Administration of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891.
On the invitation of the London County Council, the Council on
the 9th June appointed the Chairman of the Public Health Committee
(Mr. Councillor Hendrick), and Mr. Councillor Nunn, together with the
Town Clerk and the Medical Officer of Health, to attend this Conference.
The representatives met at the County Hall on the 7th and 18th
July, and proceeded to consider the administration of the Act. The
scope of the discussions were fairly comprehensive, as the following list
of subjects of resolutions adopted will show: —
Housing.—Houses let in Lodgings. Underground Rooms. Water
Supply. Factories and Workshops. Shops.
Food.—Premises where food is prepared for Sale. Abolition of
private Slaughterhouses. Inspection of Meat killed in private Slaughterhouses.
Inspection of Slaughterhouses, Cowhouses, Dairies,Milkshops,
and Milkstores. Registration of Milkshops, Sale of Milk. Municipal
Milk Depots. Sale of Food and Drugs Act. Cisterns.
Pretention of Disease.-Disinfection,'and provision of Laundry. Provision
of permanent Shelter accommodation. Precautionary Measures
against Phthisis, and Hospital Accommodation for this disease. Offensive
trades. House refuse. Collection of fish offal and other offensive trade
refuse.
Sanitary Infection
Miscellaneous.—Municipal Crèches. Smoke Nuisances. Metropolitan
Ambulance Service. Application of Acts to Government Property.