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The following resolutions passed at the several Sections
were submitted to the General Meeting of the Congress
and adopted.
"That in the opinion of this meeting the time has arrived when
the Government should either undertake the control of the Smoke
Nuisance, or adopt some other means of securing effective administration
of the law relating to smoke by County Councils or Joint Boards."
"That the Congress be recommended to Memorialise the Presidents
of the Local Government Boards of England, Scotland, and
Ireland to adopt means for providing for Sanitary Inspectors possessing
the Certificate of Competency of the Sanitary Inspectors' Examination
Board."
"That Cremation is the most Sanitary Method for the disposal of the
dead, and that it is desirable to erect Crematoria in the neighbourhood
of thickly populated districts, and that facilities should be given to
governing bodies for that purpose, and that it be a recommendation to
the Congress that a copy of this resolution be sent to the President of
the Local Government Board."
"That the Congress be recommended to protest against the policy
of the Local Government Board in fixing time limits for the repayment
of loans without proper regard to the permanence of the undertakings
for which the loans were raised.
"That it be a recommendation from this meeting to the General
Meeting of the Congress of the Institute to consider the best means of
attaining a satisfactory Codification and Amendment of Public Health
Legislation, and to take practical steps to carry this recommendation
into effect."
"That this meeting is of opinion that the present state of the Law
on Sanitary Conveniences is unsatisfactory, and that it be a recommendation
to the General Meeting of the Congress to pass a resolution
calling the attention of the Local Government Board to the defects in
the statutory provisions as complicated by recent judicial decisions, with
a view to remedial legislation."
"That the Congress be recommended to forward to the President
of the Local Government Board and the Rating Commission a
resolution in support of giving Rating Powers to Urban District
Councils and Rural District Councils instead of Guardians, and that
with this view the duties of the Overseers as regards financial matters
should cease, the geographical county being adopted as the regulation
area, and not the administration county."