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The Borough Council thereupon resolved—That it appears to the
Council (being the local authority) that the closeness, narrowness, and
bad arrangement or bad condition of the buildings in the areas referred
to, or the want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences, or any
other sanitary defect in the buildings is dangerous or prejudicial to the
health of the inhabitants either of the said buildings or of the neighbouring
buildings, and that the demolition or the reconstruction and
re-arrangement of the said buildings or of some of them is necessary
to remedy the said evils, and that the areas comprising those buildings,
and the yards, outhouses and appartenances thereof, and the site thereof,
is too small to be dealt with as an unhealthy area under Part I of the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. (This subject is further
referred in paagraph (VI) General and Miscellaneous, on page 97).
(2) Particulars of, and action taken as regards, areas represented
during the year
Areas represented—nil.
(3) Information as to complaints made during the year that areas
were unhealthy and action taken
Complaints of unhealthy areas—nil.
(V) By-laws relating to houses let in lodgings, and to tents,
vans, sheds, &c.
(1) As to working of existing by laws, and
(2) As to need for new by-laws or revision of existing by-laws.
The question of the revision of our bye-laws was again considered,
and a sub-committee was appointed to review the bye-laws. This
sub-committee recommended that the draft bye-laws, as provisionally
approved by the Borough Council on 19th March, 1914, should again be
submitted to the Local Government Board for approval, they being of
opinion that the proposed clause whereby houses were exempted from the
operation of the bye-laws until registered by Resolution of the Borough
Council was much preferable to the exemption clause in the Board's
Model Bye-laws which dealt with the question of "exemption" from a
"rent-limit" point of view.
While the subject was under review, the Housing, Town Planning,
&c., Bill of 1919 was under discussion in Parliament, and it was proposed
that as respects the County of London, bye-laws for houses of this class
should be made by the London County Council, and observed and