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The object of the Bill is to require that every Local
Authority within the United Kingdom should appoint
Sanitary Inspectors to carry the Act into effect, such appointment
to receive the sanction and confirmation of the
Local Government Board. It further provided that plans
and descriptions of all new buildings should be submitted
to such Sanitary Inspector for his approval, and laid down
certain rules as to Sanitary Appliances which should apply
to all such new buildings. That on the completion of such
buildings, the Inspector should grant certificates as to their
proper observance before such buildings could be occupied,
and that the Inspector should inspect all such Sanitary
Appliances in all the houses within the district at least
once a year.
Your Board considered that the proposed Act was unnecessary,
that all necessary powers to appoint Inspectors
and make regulations as to the Sanitary Appliances of
houses within the Metropolis were sufficiently provided for
by existing enactments, and accordingly petitioned the
House against the Bill.
The Bill was read a first time on the 6th February, 1884,
and stands for second reading on the 30th July.
The death of the late Clerk to the Board.
The Board has in the past year sustained, by the death
of its Clerk, the late Mr. John Henry Jones, the loss of an
esteemed and faithful servant. He held the appointment
of Clerk to the Board for 10 years, and invariably discharged
the many important duties intrusted to him with
great zeal, discretion, and firmness.