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CONFERENCE ON MATTERS RELATING
TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee:—
London County Council,
County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W.
March 2nd, 1911.
Sir,
It will be remembered that on July 7th, 1904, a conference,
convened by the Council, was held at the County Hall in Spring
Gardens, at which representatives of the Metropolitan Borough
Councils attended. The object of the conference was to afford the
Metropolitan Borough Councils an opportunity of exchanging
views as to the results of the experience gained in the administration
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and of discussing
any general principles which it might appear to be desirable to
adopt with a view to the Act being equally and uniformly enforced
throughout London. The holding of this conference was attended
with beneficial results and the Council is of opinion the time has
arrived when another conference should be convened with a view
to discussing the many and diverse matters of public health interest
which have arisen since the previous conference was held. The
Council has therefore decided to convene a conference to meet at
the County Hall in Spring Gardens on Thursday, April 6th, 1911,
at 11 a.m, and I am to express the hope that the Poplar Metropolitan
Borough Council will appoint two representatives to attend
the conference, accompanied by the Town Clerk and the Medical
Officer of Health.
Among the subjects which the Council suggests might usefully
be considered are the following:—
1. Regulation of furnished and unfurnished rooms,
2. Action to be taken in connection with cases of
pulmonary phthisis.