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schools ; that the epidemic grant should be renewed to enable schools to be
closed without loss of grant. This was stopped in 1903. Schools for mothers
would receive grants. The Chancellor also foreshadowed the appointment of
medical referees (or consultants) and local treatment-clinics for panel work.
Housing (No. 2) Act, 1914.
A circular was published by the Local Government Board on 21st August
1914, transmitting a copy of the above Act. By this Act the Local Government
Board in urban and the Board of Agriculture in rural districts were
authorised to make arrangements with Local Sanitary Authorities or authorised
Societies for the provision, maintenance, improvement and management of
dwellings or gardens and other works or buildings for, or for the convenience of,
persons belonging to the working classes. The Treasury will devote four
millions of money to this purpose. Any advance will be repayable within
60 years for substantial building and 80 years for land purchase. The Board
asked to be informed if there was any scope, or not, in the Council's area for the
operation of this Act.
Underground Rooms as Sleeping Places.
A circular of the Local Government Board was dated 17th April, 1914,
together with a copy of draft regulations suitable for a Local Sanitary Authority
and prescribed by Section 17 (7) of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
A memorandum for the provision of new residential institutions for the
treatment of " consumption " was published under date of "February, 1914,"
signed by the Medical Officer and Architect of the Local Government Board
on this subject. It gave advice as to the site, plans and construction of buildings
for the accommodation of—A. cases in which permanent improvement, or
recovery, may usually be anticipated ; B. cases in which temporary, though
probably prolonged, improvement may be anticipated.
Tuberculosis (Animals) Order of 1914.
It came into force July 1st, 1914. A circular letter was published by
the Board of Board of Agriculture on 23rd June, 1914. In the new order
which replaced that of 1913, "emaciation due to tuberculosis" is the term
substituted for " tuberculosis with emaciation " But other alterations are more
important than that.