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"Where a sanitary Authority appoin ted a Committee for the purpose
of this Act, that Committee, subject to the terms of their
appointment, may serve and receive notices, take proceeding,
and empower any Officer of the Authority to make complaints
and take proceeding in their behalf, and otherwise to execute
this Act."
In compliance with the sections of the said Act enabling
or requiring the Sanitary Authority so to do, the Sanitary
Committee caused draft bye-laws to be prepared for the
regulation of houses let in lodgings or occupied by members
of more than one family, and for the various other purposes
provided for in the Act. These were forwarded to the Local
Government Board on the 13th May for approval, preliminary
to being submitted to the District Board for adoption; but,
although more than three months have elapsed, they have not
yet been returned.
Bye-laws.
In November, Reports were received from the Mansion
House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor, relative to the
alleged insanitary condition of houses in the St. Saviour's
District, and the Board ordered the same to lie upon the
table. Thereupon the Council wrote to the Local Government
Board, enclosing a summary of the results of their inspection,
stating that they (the Council) had reason to believe that the
whole of the Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch were in
a more or less deplorably insanitary condition, and requesting
the Local Government Board to recommend the Home
Secretary to order an Inquiry similar to that which was held
in November, 1890, at Shoreditch. The Local Government
Board forwarded a copy of the communication to the District
Board as the Sanitary Authority, and asked to be furnished
with the observations of the latter in regard thereto. This
communication was referred to the Sanitary Committee with
instructions to frame a reply, but the Committee declined to
do so on the ground that the Board had 011 previous occasions
refused to allow the matter to come before them; and, on the
3rd February, the subject reverted to the Board, who, after a
considerable amount of discussion, passed the following
resolution:—
"That this Board has from time to time received communications
from the Mansion House Council, and, regarding as it does the
said Council as an unauthorised and self-constituted body of
people, has declined to accept their interference The Board,
however, wish to point out to the Local Government Board, in
answer to their letter, that it has a sufficient Staff for the keeping
the District in sanitary condition."
The Sanitation
of the
District.
A copy of the resolution was forwarded to the Local
Government Board, in answer to their letter, and that Board
referred the matter to the London County Council, who, in
April, ordered an Inquiry, as the following letter will show.—