View report page

10
Circular:
[Vestries and District Boards.]
ARTIZANS DWELLINGS ACTS.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, s.w.,
21st July, 1883.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board
to advert to the Memorandum prepared by their
Medical Officer on the precautions to be taken
against Cholera, copies of which the Board recently
forwarded to the Vestries and District Boards in
the Metropolis.
In that Memorandum attention was called to the
importance of certain measures being taken with
regard to water supply, the removal of refuse, and
the cleansing of dwellings, and particularly of such
dwellings as are densely occupied. In connection
with this subject the Board are desirous of referring
to the special powers conferred upon the vestries
and district boards by the Artizans Dwellings Acts,
1868 to 1882, under which they are empowered to
deal with dwellings of the working classes.
Section 5 of the Act of 1868 requires the Medical
Officer of Health, if he finds that any dwellinghouse
or inhabited building is in a condition
dangerous to health so as to be unfit for human