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Act, 1878, thereinafter referred to as the principal Act It
comes into operation on the 1st January, 1892, and enables
an Inspector under the principal Act to take proceedings on
default by the Sanitary Authority in respect of workshops
laundries. Ac., which are in an insanitary condition, and to
recover from the Sanitary Authority the expenses incurred in
so doing. It gives the Sanitary Authority a'id their officers
similar powers of entry to those possessed by an Inspector
Wider the principal Act, and provides - Section 3) that" If
and child, young person, or woman is employed in a workshop,
and the Medical Officer of the Sanitary Authority becomes
aware thereof, he shall forthwith give written notice thereof
to the Factory Inspector of the District." It also provides
(Section 4) that:—" Where, on the certificate of a Medical
Officer of Health or Inspector of Nuisances, it appears to any
Sanitary Authority that the lime washing, cleansing or purifying,
of any such workshop, or of any part thereof, is necessary
for the health of the persons employed therein, the Sanitary
Authority shall give notice in writing to the owner or occupier
of the workshop to limewash, cleanse or purify the same, or
any part thereof, as the case may require."
In September 1890 a circulsr-letter was received from the SchoolBoard
Vestry of Hammersmith, forwarding copy of a resolution pro- Expenditure,
testing against the enormous and continuing increase in the
expenditure of the School Board for London, and inviting the
Board to appoint delegates to attend a conference on the
subject. The Board appointed Mr. Baxter and Mr. Sinclair;
seventeen other Boards and Vestries also appointed delegates,
and, at a meeting of the Conference, which took place at the
Vestry Hall, Hammersmith, on the 25th November, 1890, the
following resolutions were passed, and the same were, at a
subsequent meeting of the Board. ordered to be entered upon
the minutes:—
(a) "That in view of the undoubted past extravagance
and waste in the expenditure of the School Board, by
which the School Board Bate has reached such an
enormous amount, viz. 11d. in the and the apprehension
that similar extravagance and waste may be continued
in the future, this Conference is of opinion that a
petition should be presented to her Majesty the Queen,
or Parliament. praying that a Royal Commission be appointed
to enquire into the cause of such extravagance
and waste, and matters generally connected with the
Board."
(b) That this meeting endorses the action of a Committee
of Ratepayers who propose presenting to the School
Board, by deptation, a memorial complaining of the
extravagant expenditure of that Board; and without