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(f) "So much of clause 26 (2) as would render necessary the approval of
the County Council to an arrangement between different sanitary
authorities for the use of the same disinfecting apparatus.
(g) "Clause 29 (2), which provides for the payment by the sanitary authority
of a 'reasonable sum' to persons who are prohibited by clause 29 (1)
from carrying on their ordinary trade or business in consequence of
suffering from infectious disease.
(h) "Clause 34 (2, 3, 4), which would empower the County Council to dispense
with or modify the provisions of that clause relating to the occupation
of underground rooms as dwellings.
(i) "Clause 35 (2) which provides that a Medical Officer of Health shall
reside in his district or within a mile thereof 'except in cases
'allowed by the Local Government Board.'
(j) "Clause 35 (4), which would empower the Local Government Board, on
a representation from the County Council, to order a sanitary authority
to appoint additional sanitary inspectors and to fix their remuneration.
(k) "Clause 35 (6), which provides that the nuisances complaint and order
book shall be open to the inspection of an officer of the County Council.
(l) "Clause 35 (8), which provides that Medical Officers of Health and Sanitary
Inspectors shall be removable by the Sanitary Authority 'with the
'consent of the Local Government Board, or by that Board, and not
'otherwise.'
(m) "Clause 35 (9), which would empower the sanitary authority 'with the
'sanction of the Local Government Board' to make temporary
arrangements for the performance of the duties of Medical Officer of
Health and Sanitary Inspector.
(n) "Clause 36, which would empower the County Council to institute proceedings
with regard to nuisances on it being proved to their
satisfaction that the sanitary authority have made default in doing
their duty.
(o) "Clause 37, which would empower the Local Government Board, upon
complaint made by the County Council that a sanitary authority have
made default in executing or enforcing any provisions which it is their
duty to execute or enforce, to make an order limiting the time for the
performance of the duty or to appoint the County Council to perform
such duty at the cost of the sanitary authority.
"Under the provisions of clauses 9 and 20 the County Council, with the
sanction of the Local Government Board, may make bye-laws as to cleansing
streets and the prevention of nuisances and with respect to water closets, &c., such
bye-laws to be enforced by the sanitary authorities. As it is no doubt desirable
that the same bye-laws should be in force over the whole of London, your
Committee do not object to these provisions. They however suggest that clause
9 (c), which deals with the removal of offensive matter in or through London,
should be extended so as to enable a bye-law to be made providing not only that
the carriage or vessel used shall be properly constructed and covered so as to
prevent the escape of the matter or liquid, but also so as to prevent any nuisance
arising therefrom.
"Your Committee recommend that the petition to Parliament against the Bill,
prepared by the Clerk and accompanying the report, be approved and adopted, and
that copies thereof and of the objections of the Board to the Bill be forwarded to
the Local Government Board and to the Members of Parliament for the District,"