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comprised within the administrative County of London,
the unrepealed provisions of the Common Lodging-houses
Act, 1893, are transferred to the London County Council.
Sanitary Congress.
In July last an important Sanitary Congress, convened
by the British Institute of Public Health, under the Presidency
of Professor W. R. Smith, was held at King's College,
London, for the discussion of various subjects relating to
Public Health.
As one of your Delegates I attended at the several
meetings, and beg to report that the following Resolutions,
adopted by the various sections of the Congress, the whole
of which (with the exception of those from the Engineering
and Building Construction Section, which were referred to
the Council by the Institute) were unanimously adopted:—
That, while the necessary provision of Block Dwellings for the Housing
of the Working Classes is being pushed forward within the Metropolis and
other large towns, it is desirable that every effort should also be made to increase
the number of Cottage Dwellings in the most accessible suburbs of
London and other large towns, especially in connection with the Railway
systems.
That this Conference instructs the Executive of the British Institute of
Public Health to press upon the Government the necessity of making it
compulsory on all Local Authorities to provide adequate and suitable
Hospital Accommodation for Infectious Diseases, including powers for compulsorily
acquiring land.
That, in the opinion of this Congress, the Local Government Board is not
justified in affording owners and occupiers of land in the vicinity of a site
proposed to be purchased by a Public Authority for infectious hospital purposes,
any protection beyend that given them by the action of the general
law.
That Municipal Authorities should be empowered to establish and maintain
Winter Gardens, with wholesome entertainments for the people.
That the Preventive Medicine Section of the Congress of the British
Institute of Public Health, now sitting in London, would suggest to the
Medical Officer of the Local Government Board the advantage that would
accrue to the Public Health if his Department would collect and publish