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Electric Lightmg.
31. l ot some years past the Council has been in communica-.
London County Council on the subject
of provision by the County of London
Electric Supply Company of stations to test the current supplied
by the Company. In May, 1907, the County Council stated that
the Company proposed to provide four such stations in this.
Borough, one in Roehampton, one at East Hill, one at Clapham
Cross, and the other at Streatham Hill. This Council consented
to a testing apparatus being placed in the basement of the Council
House, and the apparatus which has been fixed there is periodically
inspected by the officers of the London County Council.
Workmen's Compensation Act and Employers' Liability Act.
32. The Council considered the subject of the desirability of
insuring against risks under these Acts, and has
adjourned the consideration or the subject tor
twelve months, during- which period a record will
be kept of cases arising in which compensation is
or might be payable under the Acts, and the subject turther considered.
Disorderly Houses.
33. Enquiries were made in the few complaints received of
alleged Disorderly Houses, but it was only necessary
to take proceedings in one case, in respect of
which the defendant was sentenced to one month's imprisonment,
with hard labour, with a recommendation that at the end of his
sentence he should be deported under the Aliens Act.
Taxation of Land Values.
34. The Council considered the letter from the United Cornmittee
of the Leagues for the Taxation of Land
Values, forwarding a copy of resolution supporting
the proposals of the Government to ascertain the land
values of Great Britain, and to adopt such land values as the
standard of rating, and suggesting that this Council should consider
the urgency of passing a resolution in favour of the taxation
of land values. In reply the Council decided to send a copy of
the report on the subject of the Local Authorities (Taxation and
Purchase of Land) Bill adopted by the Council on the 13th September,
1905 (See page 61 of the Report of the Council for the
year ended 31 st March, 1906).
Wandsworth infirmary
35. The Council considered the proposal of the Guardians of
the Wandsworth Union to build a new Infirmary,,
and on the 9th October passed the following resolution
on the subject, viz.:—