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to make closing orders, subject to appeal to the Local Government Board,
instead of taking proceedings before a Police Magistrate to secure such
orders.
It is necessary the Sanitary Officers should be authorised to enter
premises for the purpose of inspection under the Act, and it will also be
convenient for the Committee to be authorised to exercise any of the
duties of the Council under the Act, which the Council may have power
to depute to them. The Public Health and Housing Committee recommended
the Council:—
(a) That the Medical Officer of Health and the several
Sanitary Inspectors be authorised to enter any house, premises or
building to which Section 15 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c.,
Act applies, for the purpose of inspecting the state and condition
thereof; and that the Seal of the Council be affixed to the necessary
warrants.
(b) That the Public Health and Housing Committee be authorised
to issue notices and take proceedings in respect of all the
duties of the Council under the Housing, Town Planning, &c.,
Act, 1909, which the Council has power to delegate.
The Public Health and Housing Committee vvere advised it would be
convenient that the Inspector of Houses Let in Lodgings should be
authorised to take certain proceedings in connection with the houses
inspected by him, which he referred to other Inspectors in the absence of
such authorisation; the Committee recommended the Council that the
Inspector for Houses Let in Lodgings be empowered to take proceedings
under the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, in respect of underground
rooms, and that, as regards houses let in lodgings, the said
Inspector shall also be empowered to enforce the By-laws made by the
London County Council under Section 39 (1) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, in respect of the cleansing of water-closets, earthclosets,
privies and receptacles for dung, and also the By-laws made by
the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar under Section 39 and
Section 50 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with regard to
water supplies to water-closets and the cleansing of cisterns, respectively.
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations, 1910.
A letter, dated 3rd September, 1910, was received from the Secretary
of the Local Government Board, as follows:—