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SECTION VI.
LEGISLATION OF 1920.
ACTS, CIRCULARS, ORDERS, REGULATIONS, etc.
I.— Board of Education.
During 1920, the Board of Education, amongst other Orders and
Regulations, issued the following:—
(1) The Order dated 3rd January, 1920, directed that the 1st April, 1920,
should be the appointed day referred to in Section 18 of the Education Act,
1918, for the purpose of that Section being carried out so far as it was not in
operation already. The Board thereby enlarged the duties of Local Education
Authorities with reference to medical inspection. Their powers with reference
to medical inspection and treatment were extended to all schools and educational
institutions (not being elementary schools) provided by that Authority. Those
duties laid down under Section 13 of the Education (Administrative and
Provisions) Act, 1907, have been thus extended beyond the children of the
elementary schools, and the powers therein accorded to make arrangements for
treatment have been made compulsory in public elementary schools, and
extended to secondary, continuation schools, and other educational institutions
provided by them, or to any educational institutions if so requested by the
managers.
(2) Regulations relating to special branches of education (other than
nursery schools) for promoting the mental and physical development of the
scholars.
II.—Unhealthy areas.
In March an interim report was issued from the Committee appointed by
the Ministry of Health to consider and advise on the procedure to be followed
in dealing with unhealthy areas.
On the 12th April, Dr. Addison, then Minister of Health, issued Statutory
Order "No. 560," laying down rules under which appeals under Section 6 (2)
of the Housing (Additional Powers) Act, 1919, might be made to the Ministry
of Health against a refusal by a Local Authority to give permission to demolish
a house, in whole or in part. This document had a special interest to us
with reference to our dealings with houses in Bridport Road, referred to in my
" Housing " section in this Report.