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a house so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for
human habitation," and generally "on some of the other questions
raised by the Act, and as to the methods of procedure to be
followed under the Act." In the event, some 37 of the delegates,
representing 25 District Authorities, resolved that it was
desirable that the representatives appointed to the Conference
should be again called together, and that the Paddington Vestry
should be asked to take the initiative in the matter—by issuing
an invitation to the Vestries and District Boards to re-appoint
their representatives, in order to give effect to the resolution
adopted at the first meeting, "by preparing a list or schedule of
the conditions or defects referred to; and to consider the best
means of carrying out the duties imposed by the Act on the
District Authorities, and the relations of these Authorities to the
County Council under the Act."
The memorial of the delegates having been presented, the
Yestry of Paddington unanimously complied with its request,
and invited the several Authorities to appoint representatives,
and, with the Medical Officers of Health, and the Vestry and
District Board Clerks, to hold the Conference at their Vestry Hall.
Two meetings were held, in February and in March, about 25
Vestries and District Boards being represented, the "Objects of
the Conference " being, as stated in the Minutes:—
"To consider the best means of carrying out the duties imposed by
the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, on the District Municipal
Authorities, and the relation of these Authorities to the County
Council, with a view to a common understanding being arrived at
between the several Authorities."
Mr. Mark H. Judge was elected Chairman, and Mr. Dethridge
(Vestry Clerk, Paddington) Hon. Secretary, of the Conference.
An Executive Committee was appointed, and also a Special Committee
on "Defects in Houses: "
"To prepare for the consideration of the Conference a list or schedule
of the conditions which may be considered to render a house 'so
dangerous or injurious to health, as to be unfit for human habitation,'
within the meaning of the Housing of the Working Classes Act."