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That many of the cases of your Memorialists are proceedings taken under
the Sanitary Acts, and your Memorialists submit that great danger to the
public health arises from delay in prosecuting and effectually dealing with
offenders in such matters.
Your Memorialists desire to express their opinion that every possible
facility is given at the Police Court for the conduct of business, but that it
is quite impossible with the present arrangements, to secure the prompt and
satisfactory administration of justice.
The Departmental Committee came to the conclusion
that it is impossible without injustice to accused persons
and the public to work any court with less than a permanent
staff of two magistrates, and they recommended
that two additional magistrates should be appointed at
once, as in their opinion the evil was a pressing one.
It is understood that the two additional magistrates
will be assigned—one to the South Western Court and
the other to the North London Court. They have not
yet, however, been appointed, and the Board are pressing
the Home Secretary to carry out the recommendation
of the Departmental Committee.
Electric
Lighting.
All the Electric Lighting Orders relating to
this District which had been granted up to the Session
of 1892 have been successively revoked by the Board of
Trade, no practical steps having been taken to carry
them into effect. In the Session of 1892 an order
promoted by the County of London Electric Lighting
Company, Limited, was introduced into Parliament
authorising the Company to supply electricity throughout
the District. Tho Board settled with the promoters
the list of streets in which distributing mains were
to be laid within a limited period, and other details,
and the order became law on the 28th June, 1892.
The Company have not yet, however, commenced
operations in the District, and the Board are now in
communication with the Board of Trade on the
subject.