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cally and energetically carried out, such action involving
the following administrative measures
(a) Systematic house-to-house inspections, with an increased
inspectorial staff, as times become more
normal;
(b) the subsequent and consequent serving and carrying
out of sanitary notices, together with the making of
closing orders (followed by demolition orders, if
required) in connection with houses which, individually
or in the form of courts and alleys and culde
sacs, are represented by the Medical Officer of
Health to be in such a state, so dangerous or injrious
to health, as to be unfit for human habitation.
(4) Private development schemes to be forthwith commenced,
or, if already commenced, but stopped on account of the
War, re-started by the Owners concerned, and such pressure
brought to bear upon such Owners as may prove
effective towards that end, e.g., by the Council opening
up negotiations with the Owners concerned, or in any
other way that may be thought to be advisable.
(5) The Council's policy of asphalt-paving side roads and
streets to be continued in the Inner Wards of the Borough
(more especially Vauxhall Ward).
Conclusion (1) concerns the London County Council as the
Housing Authority under Part I. of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890, as does also Conclusion (2), with the proviso, in
the latter case, that the Borough Council has concurrent powers
with the County Council, but such concurrent Powers could only be
used after consultation with, and with the approval of, the London
County Council.
Conclusion (3) is entirely a matter for the Borough Council
itself—to call upon the Owners to carry out their responsibilities by
the serving and enforcing of sanitary notices by which insanitary
houses can be rendered reasonably fit in all respects for human
habitation, or closed and afterwards demolished under closing and
demolition orders. This closing of unfit individual houses, or small
collections of houses, e.g., courts or alleys, would cause a minimum