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structed so as to afford suitable accommodation for each of
tho families or persons inhabiting it, and due provision is
made for their sanitary requirements, he must certify the
same accordingly.
Tho Act docs not empower a Medical Officer of Health
to charge any fee for a certificate under it.
The Medical Officer has been called upon to make one
or two certificates only under this Act since it has been in
force.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
This Act came into operation on the 18th August, 1890,
and it has received the careful consideration of this Board;
but during tho year now under review no reports or representations
have been made rendering it necessary for them
to take proceedings under it.
The Board in December, 1890, took part in a Conference
between the Housing of the Working Classes Committee of
the London Connty Council and Delegates from Vestries and
District Boards, held at the County Hall, Spring Gardens.
Upon that occasion the Board were represented by Mr.
Williams, their Chairman, and Mr. Jerrard, the Chairman of
tho Works and General Purposes Committee, and the Clerk
and Medical Officer. The Meetings of the Conference were
held on the 5th December, 1890, and the 5th January, 1891.
At the first Meeting certain resolutions were carried, referring
it to the Medical Officers to report generally on the subject,
submitting, if practicable, a list or schedule of the defects
which might be considered to render a house so "dangerous
or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation."
Mr. Jerrard submitted to the Board, on the 4th Feb.,
1891, a copy of the Report submitted and laid before the Conference
by the Medical Officers at the second Meeting, and
also stated the further proceedings thereat, in which he
advocated a house to house inspection of small tenements,
as carried out in this District. The matter was not proceeded
with, and the Meeting terminated and the Conference
closed without any special result.