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The Conference unanimously approved of the resolutions
adopted by the Conference held at the County Hall, as set out
above (page 154).
An invitation was addressed to the County Council, inviting
that body to appoint delegates to attend the Conference. In their
reply the Council, while "glad to know that the Vestries and
District Boards were holding a Conference on this important
subject," considered it to be "best, inasmuch as the Conference
is one between those Boards, that the Council should not be formally
represented upon it, but rather that, when any conclusions
have been arrived at, these should, if the Vestries and District
Boards so desired, form the subject of a further Conference
between them and the Council."
The Report of the Special Committee on Defects in
Houses was approved. After some introductory matter, this
report was to the following effect:—
"1. That, in the opinion of the Committee, the Housing of the
Working Glasses Act, 1890, contemplates a distinction between those
defects which make a house temporarily, and those which make it
permanently unfit for human habitation.
"2. That a house may be considered so 'dangerous or injurious to
health ' as to be permanently unfit for human habitation, which—
(1) By reason of age or decay, has become so dilapidated or worn
out, as to be practically incapable of repair,
(2) Being constructed of bad or improper materials, is offensive
and unwholesome,
(3) Is in a situation not admitting of effectual drainage,
(4) Has been erected upon such an improper foundation that it is
impregnated with foul air,
(5) Is incurably damp, or
(6) Is incapable of being provided with light and ventilation.
"3. That a house may be considered to be temporarily unfit for
human habitation which is in 'such a state as to be a nuisance or
injurious to health,' from
(1) Dilapidations which are capable of repair,