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past session a Bill introduced into the House of Commons
by Mr. Burdett Coutts, M P., passed into Law which enables
Local Authorities to prohibit or allow the affixing of
advertisements to hoardings erected under license granted
by them.
The Board decided to allow the affixing of advertisements
and accordingly a scale of charges was prepared and
approved of by the Works Committee.
Housing of the Working Classes.
On the 2nd December, 1889, a communication was
received from the President of the Local Government Board
calling the attention of the Board to the duties imposed
upon them by the Housing of the Working Classes, England,
Act, 1885 and the large powers which they possessed under
the Nuisance Removal Acts and other Statutes in relation
to the great and pressing question of the Housing of the
Labouring Classes.
The Board referred this communication to their Clerk to
confer with the Medical Officer of Health and reply to the
same, and this having been done, on the 25th February a
communication was received from the President of the Local
Government Board, acknowledging the receipt of the communication
forwarded by the Clerk and expressing satisfaction
at its content in the following words:—
" The Local Government Board direct me to thank you
"for the interesting particulars furnished by you and to
" express their satisfaction at the action which has been taken
" by the Board of Works in order to carry into effect the provisions
of the different statutes mentioned in your letter."