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The House of Commons—Sessions 1884.
dwelling-Houses inspection bill.
Petition Against;
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the Board of Works for the
Fulham District in the County of Middlesex,
under their Common Seal.
Sheweth—That a Bill has been introduced and is now
pending in your honourable House, entitled "Dwelling-Houses
Inspection Bill," which Bill proposes to give powers to Local
Authorities to appoint inspectors, and for such appointment
they shall have the same powers as are given for the appointment
of Inspectors of Nuisances under the Public Health Act, 1875,
but all such appointments must receive the sanction and confirmation
of the Local Government Board.
That the Bill proposes to provide for the periodical inspection
of the Sanitary fittings, drains, water closets, privies, ashpits,
cesspools, means of ventilation, water supply and storage, and
all other Sanitary appliances of buildings.
Your Petitioners, the Board of Works for the Fulham
District, are the Sanitary Authority under the powers of the
Metropolis Local Management Acts, and the Nuisances Removal,
Sanitary, and other Acts, and have various powers conferred
upon them as to the appointment of Inspectors, and the inspections,
control, and dealing with buildings and nuisances, and
while your Petitioners would be glad if the powers now conferred
upon them were, in the Public Interest, to be strengthened and
improved, they are of opinion that the provisions of the Bill if
extended to the Metropolis would create confusion in the administration
of Sanitary measures in your Petitioners' District and the
Metropolis generally.
Your Petitioners therefore pray that your honourable House
will not pass the said Bill into a law, but if your honourable
House should be of opinion the same should pass, then that the
Metropolitan area should be excluded from the provisions
thereof.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by Order,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
14th May, 1884.
The Bill was subsequently dropped.