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"Clause 29 (2), under which the authority may be ordered to pay in addition
5s. a day to the occupier while the non-compliance continues.
"Clause 98, 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 duly, and to recover
the expenses thereof from the sanitary authority.
"Clause 99, 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 and to appoint the County Council to perform such duty at the
cost of the sanitary authority.
"Clause 104 (3), 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.'
"Clause 105 (2), 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.
"Clause 105 (3), which provides that the nuisances complaint and order book
shall be open to the inspection of an officer of the County Council.
"Clause 106 (2b), 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.'
"Clause 107, 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.
"The Bill as passed by the Parliamentary Committee will be reported to the
House on Monday next, and your Committee have therefore instructed the Clerk to
again communicate with the Members of Parliament for this District and with Mr.
Morton, M.P., with the view of the Board's objections to the foregoing provisions
being further considered.
"The new clause suggested by the Board to the effect; that no house newly
erected in the Metropolis shall be occupied before the sanitary authority has issued
a certificate that such house is properly drained and fit for human habitation was
not adopted by the Parliamentary Committee, and your Committee have instructed
the Clerk to bring this clause again under the notice of the above-mentioned
Members of Parliament,
"The new clause proposed by Mr. Morton, M.P., providing for appeals in all
matters to the London County Council, to which the Board objected, was not adopted
by the Parliamentary Committee. Your Committee have instructed the Clerk to inform
the above-mentioned Members of Parliament that in the event of the provisions
which introduce the London County Council as a controlling authority being
omitted from the Bill, the Board suggest that in substitution thereof a clause might
be inserted providing for an appeal to the Local Government Board by any person
who deems himself aggrieved by the neglect or refusal of a sanitary authority to do
anything which such authority is required to do by the Bill.
"The Board suggested to the Local Government Board the desirability of incorporating
in the Bill the law relating to the sanitary regulation of bakehouses.
Provisions similar to those of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1883, which made
the sanitary authority the authority for carrying out the provisions of the Factor