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At the meeting of the Council on October 16th a
letter was read from the Local Government Board giving
formal notice of an inquiry proposed to be held at the
Town Hall, on Friday, October 24th, 1913, by an Inspector
of the Board with reference to the representation
submitted to the London County Council by the Medical
Officer of Health in respect of the Brady Street area. The
Town Clerk was instructed to represent the Council at the
inquiry.
On October 22nd Major Norton, an Inspector of the
Local Government Board, called upon the Town Clerk, and
afterwards visited the area, accompanied by officers of
this Council and of the London County Council.
On October 24th a public inquiry was held at the Town
Hall by Major Norton, and at the following meeting of
the Council the Town Clerk presented an account of the
proceedings in the form of a report by the Public Health
Committee as follows:—
(a) Brady Street Area.
In our last report to the Council on the subject of
the Brady Street area we intimated that the Local
Government Board had decided to proceed under Section
10 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, to
direct a Local Inquiry to be held as to the correctness of
the official representation made to the London County
Council by the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. George
Paddock Bate), and other matters in connection therewith.
The Inquiry was held by Major C. E. Norton, R.E.,
the Inspector appointed for that purpose, at the Town
Hall, Bethnal Green, on Friday, the 24th October, 1913,
the Inspector having two days previously inspected the