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as well as of premises to which the Smoke Consumption clauses of the
Public Health Act apply; and of Underground Rooms—all of which
it will be the duty of the Vestry to supervise.
"The work of registering houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family, would be resumed and completed upon the lines
laid down by the Committee and approved by the Vestry. Some l,800
houses only have been registered out of an estimated total of 8,000. For
the purpose of supervision of such houses it will probably be found
desirable to employ the continuous services of two Inspectors.
"Consideration of the best plan for giving due effect to the bye-laws to be
prepared by the Vestry, and of those to be prepared by the County
Council, may be deferred until the said bye-laws shall have been
confirmed by the Local Government Board.
"It is unnecessary to refer to the ordinary current work of the Inspectors
under the Metropolis Management Acts, or under the Public Health
Act, so far as it is merely a consolidating measure, the object of this
Memorandum being to set forth the new or additional work devolved
upon the Vestry by recent legislation, which includes the Housing of
the Working Classes Act, 1890, an Act which, owing to the insufficiency
of the Inspecting staff, has hitherto been a dead letter in this
parish."
The Committee, after consideration of the report of the
Sub-Committee and the above Memorandum, reported to the
Vestry (16th March), as follows:—
"Your Committee have fully considered the report of the Medical Officer
of Health, referred by the Vestry on the 23rd December last, setting
forth his recommendations as to the addition required to be made to
the Sanitary Staff for the due performance of the duties devolving upon
the Vestry under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the Housing
of the Working Classes Act, and the Factory Acts. They have also had
before them a report from a Sub-Committee whom they appointed to
consider the subject, and a memorandum by the Medical Officer of
Health, prepared at the request of the Sub-Committee, setting out a
scheme for carrying out the work of his Department to the greatest
advantage with the proposed increased staff of Sanitary Inspectors.
" It will be remembered that the following suggestions, amongst others,
were put forward by the Medical Officer of Health for the consideration
of the Vestry, viz.:(a)
That the new duties could not be executed effectively with the
present staff, which be considered inadequate for current duties
under existing laws, and that four additional Sanitary Inspectors
and one efficient Clerk were required to carry out the work.