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Borough Councils, and resolved that a communication be
addressed to the Local Government Board accordingly.
PHTHISIS AND RAILWAY CARRIAGES.
On the 24th October the Works Committee considered a
letter from the Woolwich Borough Council, forwarding for the
consideration of the Council a copy of a report by their Medical
Officer of Health, on Phthisis and Railway Carriages, stating
that the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway have been asked
to give their favourable consideration to recommendations contained
therein as follows:—
1. To post and enforce regulations forbidding spitting in every
compartment of their railway carriages.
2. To use washable materials in upholstering their compartments,
and
3. To adopt a system of cleansing by washing the woodwork and
using wet cloths for the seats, which will obviate the risk of scattering
the germs of disease in the air and requesting that if this Council agree
with these recommendations they would be good enough to communicate
with the Railway Company.
I reported to the Committee that in my opinion, although
there is no statutory obligation at the present time, it
would be well for the Council to support the recommendations
of the Woolwich Borough Council. The Committee directed
that a letter be addressed to the South-Eastern and Chatham
Railway Company in support of the recommendations made by
the Woolwich Borough Council.
ORDERS, REGULATIONS, &c.—
Regulations Affecting the Manufacture and Sale of Ice
Creams.—The following regulations have been issued by the
London County Council in pursuance of their General Powers