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by the bye-laws, "to make sufficient provision for the following
purposes, set out in the Sixth Schedule, to wit:—
"For securing that the lodging-houses shall be under the
management and control of the officers, servants, or
others appointed or employed in that behalf by the local
authority.
"For securing the due separation at night of men and boys
above eight years old from women and girls.
"For preventing damage, disturbance interruption, and
indecent and offensive language and behaviour and
nuisances.
"For determining the duties of the officers, servants, and
others appointed by the local authority."
It may be added that, by section 63, tenants of lodging houses
become disqualified for continuing to be such lenauts by the receipt
of parochial relief, "other than relief granted on account only of
accident or temporary illness ; " and that, by section 64, it is provided
that any lodging-houses, established for seven years or
upwards, aud "determined by the local authority to be unnecessary
or too expensive to be kept up,'' may be sold.
It would thus appear that the Council have power to provide
separate tenement dwellings for the families of the working classes,
and lodging-houses that would be available for the nomadic poor,
tramps, wayfarers, travellers, etc; and should the Jubilee Committee
be indisposed to adopt the proposals set out in the last
monthly report (page 32), it is to be hoped that the Council may
be induced to take pity on the poor in "Notting Dale" by
exercising such power. But failing Council and Committee, I
should like to point out that there is a third course open; for the
Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorised, by Section
67, to lend money to any "company, society, or association
established for the purpose of constructing or improving, or of
facilitating or encouraging the construction or improvement, of
dwellings for the working classes"; and any such body is for the
aforesaid purposes, authorized to acquire land; and " for the purpose
of holding such land," if not already a body corporate, shall nevertheless
be " deemed a body corporate with perpetual succession."
Without exhausting the powers of this Part of the Act I have
said enough, perhaps, to show, prima facie, that it would appear
to enable a public body like the County Council, or a body like the
Jubilee Committee, or any body of philanthropic or business
persons, to provide a remedy for an evil which all deplore and al