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the Streatham scheme and in the meantime not to withdraw those
tramways from the Bill. The County Council stated in reply
that the Standing Order not having been complied with in the
case of the Streatham line and in the case of the Clapham Common
line the County Council having passed a resolution not to proceed
petitioners against the Bill had withdrawn their opposition, and
that it was not practicable to proceed with the schemes that
Session.
55.—On the 9th June a deputation from this Council had an
interview with the Highways Committee of the County Council to
discuss the question of the two proposed tramways above referred
to and the general question of this Council's contribution towards
the cost of street widenings in connection with tramway widenings,
and a letter has since been received stating that the Highways
Committee do not see their way to recommend the County
Council to submit the schemes to Parliament in the Session of
1905 but are considering them in connection with any schemes
which may be placed before the County Council for the Session
of 1906.
London
County
Council
(General
Powers).
56.—This Bill would, amongst other things, authorise Sanitary
Authorities to cause articles of clothing or of
any other nature in a filthy, dangerous, or unwholesome
condition to be cleansed or destroyed; to
require the owner or occupier of any house or part
of a house which appeared to them to be infested with vermin to
cleanse the same; to require the owner to remove any sanitary
convenience accessible from any street which in the opinion of the
Sanitary Authority shall be so placed or constructed as to be a
nuisance or offensive to public decency, provided that this provision
shall not extend to any sanitary convenience erected by
any railway company within their railway stations, yards, or
approaches thereto; to require the removal of fixed ash-pits in all
cases where a movable ash-pit has been provided. The Bill
would also prohibit the sorting or sifting of house refuse in the
County of London otherwise than by machinery or mechanical
means; and provided that with respect to any room or place in
which any article intended or adapted for the sale of food is sold,
exposed for sale, or prepared for sale, no sanitary convenience shall