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annual licence, to be granted after consideration of the fitness of the
applicant and the structure and cleanliness of ths premises, such
licences to be granted by the County Council in the same manner as is
done with regard to common lodging-houses.
They suggest as an alternative means of securing adequate supervision
that the local sanitary authority should be invested with full power to
inspect and enforce a certain standard of requirements, authority being
given to the Council, with the consent of the Local Government Board
in each case, to act in default of action by the local sanitary authority.
The County Council invited the metropolitan borough councils to
assist them with their views as to the means, by licensing or otherwise,
by which the sanitary and moral conditions of the inmates of these
houses could be improved.
There are a certain number of houses let out in the manner described
in the City.
The City Council agreed that further legislation is desirable, that it
should be on the lines set forth in the alternative suggestion contained
in the County Council's letter, and that if it is thought necessary to
make provision in the Bill giving power to the County Council to act in
the case of a defaulting local sanitary authority, such provision should
be similar to that contained in Section 101 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
Common Lodgtng-iiouses.
Complaint was made to the Council of the improper inspection and
supervision and the insanitary condition, &c., of the common lodginghouses
in Great Peter Street and Great Smith Street.
The supervision of common lodging-houses in the metropolis being
the duty of the London County Council, the Council resolved to transmit
a copy of the complaint to the County Couucil.
The condition of one of the houses was receiving consideration in
the matter of the sale of milk there, prior to the receipt of the complaint,
but a special inspection of the premises was made.
The premises No. 40, Great Peter Street, and No. 6, Great Smith
Street, were both found to be conducted in accordance with the legal
requirements for such houses.
With regard to the premises No. 33, Great Peter Street, the conditions
of that part of the premises where milk and other provisions are
stored and sold, and the caretaker's apartments, and the ventilation of
the common kitchen on to the adjoining footway, were not considered
satisfactory.
The condition of the place where milk and other provisions are
stored and of the caretaker's apartments was improved, and a copy of