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was adopted expressive of the view "that the County Council
should, under sub-section (7) of section 46, contribute to
the Local Authority one moiety of the expenses of carrying
into effect all schemes, comprising an area of five dwellinghouses
and upwards, which may be ordered by the Local
Government Board, upon the petition of the Local Authority
under section 39."
It was felt by several of the delegates that so lame and
impotent a conclusion was unworthy of the occasion. Acting,
therefore, on the hint conveyed by the Chairman in his opening
remarks, they subsequently held a meeting to consider
what steps should be taken with a view to arriving at that
"common understanding" between the Council and the
District Authorities, which at the first meeting was almost
unanimously held to. be desirable, as to the " conditions or
defects which would render 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, a Conference of the Vestries and District Boards was
held at the Paddington Vestry Hall, in order to give effect
to the resolution of the original Conference, above adverted
to, namely, "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 Paddington Conference, having approved of the
resolutions adopted by the Conference held at the County Hall,
a Committee was appointed "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." The