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COUNCIL COMMITTEES
The general reference to the Committees of the Council which are
concerned with matters of Public Health read
Public Health Committee.—All matters relating to public health,
including rehousing, prevention of overcrowding and sanitary conditions
(except those specifically mentioned in the order of reference of the
Housing Committee) ; and food and drugs.
Housing Committee.—All matters relating to housing activities of
the Council, including the rehousing of inadequately housed or overcrowded
persons, or persons displaced by reason of clearance or compulsory
purchase orders.
Highways and Cleansing Committee.—All matters relating to
streets and roads, whether highways or private streets, cleansing and
lighting of streets, refuse collection and disposal, sewerage and sewage
disposal, streams and water courses. . . .
Open Spaces Committee.—All matters relating to . . . public baths,
cemeteries and burial grounds. . . .
General Purposes and Finance Committee.— ... all other matters
concerning the Council not specifically included in the order of reference
of another Committee.
Clearance and Re-Development Committee.—To consider, and
where necessary to make recommendations to the Council in regard to,
the submission to the Minister of Housing and Local Government of
proposals as to clearance, and improvement areas, including the preparation
of detailed proposals, showing phased programmes for the
acquisition and clearance of insanitary dwellings and replacement thereof
and the re-housing of their occupants; and for the acquisition and
temporary improvement of unfit houses.
General Purposes and Finance Sub-Committee of the Education
Committee.—All matters relating to finance, supplemental and ancillary
services, and to special educational treatment; control of the Education
Department, and matters not within the order of reference of another
Sub-Committee.