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The Vestry also received a letter from the Clerk to
the London County Council stating that the Council was
calling a Conference of Vestries and District Boards limited
to two members, with Clerk, and Medical Officer from each, to
consider the provisions of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act of 1890, and the Vestry appointed Messrs. W.
Jackson and Murphy, the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of
the Sewers and Sanitary Committee, as Delegates. A
Conference was also convened to be held at the Paddington
Vestry Hall on the same subject.
The following Report was received:—
The Report of the Delegates appointed by the Vestry at
a Meeting held on the 10th November, 1890. to meet the
Housing of the Working Classes Committee of the London
County Council in conference with the Representatives
appointed by the Vestries and District Boards of the
Metropolis to consider the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, "with the hope that some mutual understanding
may be arrived at between the Council and the District
Authorities, both as to the bearing of some of the provisions
of the new Act, and as to the methods of procedure to be
followed under it." The Conference was held at the County
Hall on the 5th December last, every Vestry and District
Board having responded to the invitation, by appointing two
of its members, with the Vestry Clerk and the Medical
Officers of Health, as delegates. The Conference was presided
over by Earl Compton, Chairman of the Housing of
the Working Classes Committee, who dealt with the subject
matter of part - of the Act, under the three several headings
(1) Houses unfit lor human habitation (2) Obstructive