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parliamentary bills, etc.—continued.
of the occupiers, disinfect premises and make compensation for any
articles destroyed. Persons may not cease to occupy houses without
previous disinfection, must give notice to the owners, and may not
make false answers. No body of a person who has died of an
infectious disease may be retained in a house elsewhere than in a
mortuary for more than 48 hours without the sanction of a medical
practitioner. Bodies of persons so dying in any hospital or place of
temporary accommodation, may be removed therefrom only for
burial except with the like sanction, and save and except to a
mortuary. Justices may in certain cases order bodies to be buried,
and they may order the detention of infected persons in hospital in
default of proper lodging-elsewhere. Corpses may not be carried in
a public conveyance, except a hearse, without notice to the owner
or driver, who shall immediately disinfect the conveyance. Penalties
are provided for the preceding and other similar offences enumerated
in the Bill. Clauses 5 and 6, requiring dairymen and persons engaged
in washing or mangling to furnish lists of their customers, were
subsequently withdrawn, and other minor amendments having been
made, the Bill was read a third time in the Commons and passed.
London Overhead Wires.—This is a Bill to provide for the
control and regulation of Overhead Wires, and, unlike previous
Bills, with the exception of any street, road, embankment, bridge,
park, garden, or open space, vested in the London County Council,
the Commissioners of Sewers, and the Vestries and District Boards,
are constituted the Local Authorities. Under its provisions the
Council may require Companies to remove existing wires over
streets in which there are subways, and to charge for the use of the
same; wires must be maintained in proper condition and repair, and
in case of failure, the Council may execute any works and recover
their cost. New overhead wires may not be placed without the
permission of the Council and the Local Authority. Rights over
private properties are not to be acquired except by agreement.
Wires in such a condition that danger to the public may be
apprehended may be required to be removed or altered. On the
26th February, 1891, it was resolved to request the Member for the
Borough to support the Bill.