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these provisions should be in addition to, and not in substitution
for, the provisions of Section 71 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, under which the Metropolitan Borough Councils have
some powers to deal with the matter.
36.—Provisions were also included for regulating the manufacture
and sale of ice creams or other similar commodity, and providing
for licences being granted by the London County Council to
keepers of common lodging houses, and for the inspection and
regulation of such places.
37.—This Council approved of the Bill. The above-mentioned
provisions, with the exception of those relating to the milk supply,
were passed.
London
County Council
Subways and
Tramways.
38.—This Bill was to enable the London County Council to make a
subway and tramway from Victoria Embankment,
near Waterloo Bridge, to Theobald's Road, Holborn,
and contained provisions authorising the London
County Council to make and maintain subways in
or under such streets in the County of London as they thought fit,
and to lay and use tramways through and along such subways
with all necessary stairs, passages, works, and conveniences connected
therewith. These latter provisions were afterwards withdrawn.
London
County Council
Electric
Supply.
39—The object of this Bill was to confer upon local authorities
and the London County Council further powers of
purchase with regard to electric lighting undertakings.
This Council suggested that a provision
should be inserted to the effect that where any electric lighting
company has a special order for the supply in a Borough and
has supplied from a generating station in such Borough electricity
outside the Borough the Council of the Borough in purchasing the
undertaking should not be required to pay any compensation in
respect of the value of the supply outside the Borough. The
proposed clause was not inserted, and the Bill was rejected by the
Select Committee of the House of Commons.