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The Intelligence Department would be much obliged if your
Council would see their way to arrange that the Medical Officer of
Health should make for the use of the Committee a brief monthly
report on these subjects. It is not desired that he or any of his
officers should undertake special research in the matter but simply
that he should make a short report on what is ascertained in the
ordinary course of duty. It will be convenient if the first report is
made at the end of this month.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) K. I. Gibbon.
The Town Clerk.
Instructions were therefore issued to the staff to furnish, without
fail, at the end of each month, any information which may have been
obtained in regard to the subject-matter of the above letter.
Underground Workrooms Bill.
A Bill to regulate the use of Underground Workrooms. This Bill
seeks to enact that no underground room in a factory, workshop or
workplace shall be used for the purpose of any of the processes or occupations
specified unless duly certified by the Council to be suitable.
This Bill was considered by the General Purposes Committee and it
would appear that an underground room unconnected with a factory,
etc., would not come under the Bill.
The Committee were of opinion the Bill should be amended to
include such a room, and recommended the Council that representations
be made to the local Members of Parliament on the subject.
Children Bill.
A Bill to provide for the more effectual treatment and prevention
of Destitution and Sickness among Children, and to regulate the Hours
and Conditions of Labour among Children.
Children (Employment and School Attendance) Bill.
[As amended by standing committee A.]
A Bill to amend the Law in respect of the Employment of Children
and their Attendance at School.