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and Workshop Acts so far as they relate to bakehouses have now been inserted in
the Bill. Your Committee are of opinion that instead of the Bill merely constituting
the sanitary authority the authority to carry out certain provisions in another
Act of Parliament, such provisions should be incorporated in the Bill itself, and
they have instructed the Clerk to suggest to the Local Government Board that this
course should be adopted; also to again call the attention of the President of such
Board to this Board's objections to the Bill."
Upon the third reading of the Bill on the 26th of
June, Mr. Morton, M.P., a member of this Board for the
parish of Clapham, proposed the Board's clause with
regard to newly erected houses, but Mr. Ritchie stated
that whilst he sympathised with the object of the
clause he thought it should be postponed until next year,
when he proposed to deal with the building laws of the
Metropolis. Lord Cross had charge of the Bill in the
House of Lords, where it was read a second time on the
7th July. It received the Royal assent on the 5th
August, and came into operation on the 1st January,
1892. The Act was referred by the Board to the
Sanitary Committee, who made the following report
upon it, viz:—
1.—"Your Committee beg to report that, pursuant to the reference to them,
they have considered the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which comes into
operation ot> the 1st of January next.
2.—"The following are the principal changes made by the Act in the present
law upon which it is necessary for the Board to take action, viz.:—
3.—"The Sanitary Authority are to carry out the law relating to smoke
consumption (section 23.)
4.—"The cleanliness, &c., of workshops to be enforced by the Sanitary
Authority (section 25).
5.—"Footways of parish roads to be properly swept and cleansed by the
Sanitary Authority (section 29).
6.—"Notice to be given by Sanitary Authority of the times appointed for
clearing ashpits, earth closets, privies, and cesspools (section 30).
7.—"Factories and workshops to be provided with sufficient and suitable
sanitary conveniences (section 38).
8.—"Newly erected houses not to be occupied until the Sanitary Authority
have certified that they have a proper and sufficient supply of water
(section 48). The same section provides that an occupied house
without a proper and sufficient supply of water shall be a nusiance
liable to be dealt with under the Act, and, if it is a dwelling-house,
shall be deemed unfit for human habitation.