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eight Inspectors acting under the direction of the Medical Officer
of Health have been re-appointed, and one-half of their salaries
is now repayable by the County Council. The re-appointment of
the five Inspectors acting under the direction of the Surveyors is
still under consideration.
Housing of
the WorKing
Classes.
78.—The question of the housing of the working classes has
engaged the attention of the Public Health Committee.
Plans have been prepared by the Surveyors for
building upon sites which appeared to the Committee
to be suitable for the purpose at Clapham, Putney and Wandsworth.
Two reports were made to the Council on the subject,
and the Committee were authorised to expend the sum of £45 in
obtaining reports from the Architects to the Guinness Trustees
upon the suitability of the sites "and the probable cost of erecting
dwellings thereon. These reports have been obtained and are
under consideration.
79.—Conferences were convened by the Islington Borough Council
and the London County Council respectively to consider the
subject of the Housing of the Working Classes; Alderman
Wellborne and Councillors Gay and Lidiard were appointed
the representatives of the Council. It was decided at the
Islington Conference to communicate with the London County
Council with the view of settling the sphere of action of the
various Metropolitan Authorities under the Housing of the
Working Classes. This resolution was considered by the Conference
convened by the County Council, when it was decided that, with a
view to avoiding dual control and overlapping expenditure, no
scheme should be promoted by either the County Council or
Borough Council, except after due consultation between the two
Councils; that a simultaneous special enquiry should be made by
each Council as to the number of persons it may be necessary to
house within the area of each Borough; and that modifications
of the existing building laws and regulations are essential in order
to faciltiate the further erection of industrial dwellings.
80.—The Committee also considered as to providing Municipal
Lodging Houses. A plan was prepared by the Surveyor of a site
at Hill's Yard, Wandsworth, but upon enquiry it was found that a