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may I suggest that you again bring the matter before your Council
with a view to resolutions being passed and forwarded to the Prime
Minister and the President of the Local Government Board, strongly
urging the views of the Conference, and also asking the Parliamentary
Eepresentatives of your Borough to bring pressure to bear upon His
Majesty's Government to deal with the question without delay.
Yours faithfully,
E. M. PEESCOTT,
Town Clerk.
The General Purposes Committee recommended the Council—
"That a strong representation be made to the Prime Minister
and the President of the Local Government Board, again urging the
introduction of legislation to deal with the question of combined
drainage, and that the members representing the Borough in Parliament
be requested to support such representation."
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL
POWERS) ACT, 1904.
Verminous Booms and Licensed Premises' Urinals.
Verminous Eooms.
Verminous rooms are now brought to the notice of owners upon the
" Intimations " which are followed, if necessary, by " Statutory Notices,"
more especially as there are generally other defects upon the premises,
and certainly verminous premises are " in such a state as to be a nuisance
to health," and owners, if they do not already know, are informed when
defects are being dealt with under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
that the vermin must be got rid of, otherwise the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1904, will be brought into operation.
When a notice is served for cleansing under the bye-laws for houses
let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, should
the premises be verminous a special intimation to that effect is enclosed.
The above procedure saves a large amount of time, as under the