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tions." Reference was made to the opportunities Relieving
Officers have, in the visitation of their districts, for becoming
aware of the existence of nuisances, and it was suggested that
before making any regulations the Guardians should place
themselves in communication with the Sanitary Authority.
" No approval on the part of the Board to the regulations will
be required." In due course I received a communication from
Mr. Rutherglen, the Clerk to the Guardians, intimating that
the Guardians had directed their Relieving Officers to give me
information of any nuisance which may come to their knowledge
in their respective Relief Districts.
THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
The County Council, at a meeting in December, resolved,
upon the recommendation of the General Purposes Committee,
to create a Public Health Department, and, with this object,
to appoint an Assistant Medical Officer of Health, and other
officials, to supplement the existing staff in the department
of the Medical Officer of Health. The recommendation of
the Committee is contained in a report on the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, which, as marking a new departure by
the Council, cannot fail to be of interest to every Sanitary
Authority in the Metropolis.
The report opens with a brief account of the circumstances which
led to the passing of the Act, and of the steps taken by the Council
to secure the adoption of recommendations, formulated by certain of
their Committees, for the amendment of the law. The principal
amendments in the law which directly concern the Council are then
set out, with especial reference to the "new powers and obligations
conferred or imposed upon the Council," and it is observed "that
the most important amendments are those which give the Council
the power of enforcing due execution of the law by the Sanitary