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7. To report to the Council when and as required as to bye-laws
for the good rule and Government of the Borough.
8. To consider and report upon proposed railway, tramway, and
other schemes, and upon all matters which relate to the general policy
of the Council or which are not referred to any other Committee.
9. To provide and arrange for the supply of printing, stationery,
and other similar articles required for the use of the Council.
Public Health Committee.
1. To have the care and supervision of all matters relating to the
sanitary condition of the Borough and the removal of nuisances therein.
2. To receive reports of the Medical Officers of Health and of
the Sanitary Inspectors, and to give such directions thereon as the
Committee may consider necessary.
3. To supervise the registration of dairymen, the enforcing of
bye-laws and regulations with respect to dairies and milk, slaughterhouses,
knackers' yards and offensive businesses; and the keeping of
the registers of bake-houses, underground rooms, and houses let in
lodgings or occupied by more than one family.
4. To deal with notices of intended applications for licences for
slaughter-houses and cow-houses.
5. To order notices to be served and such proceedings to be
taken as the Committee may consider necessary under the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and of bye-laws made thereunder,
and the Factories Acts; provided that, except with the consent
of the Council, the Committee shall not have power to take legal
proceedings other than before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
6. To receive reports of Officers, and take such proceedings as
may be necessary under the Margarine Act and the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts.
7. To administer the Housing of the Working Classes Acts.
8. To supervise the removal of refuse and rubbish, and to
arrange for the disposal of the same.
9. To report to the Council as to any action which the Committee
may consider necessary to be taken with respect to the water
supply of the Borough and the regulations of Water Companies.