The housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, annotated, with appendices containing the Incorporated Statutory Provisions, the Working Classes Dwellings Act, 1890, the Standing Orders of Parliament related to Provisional Orders, and the Circulars, Memoranda and Orders of the Local Government Board under the Act / by he author of "The Local Loans of England and Wales".

  • Allan, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1861-1929.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, annotated, with appendices containing the Incorporated Statutory Provisions, the Working Classes Dwellings Act, 1890, the Standing Orders of Parliament related to Provisional Orders, and the Circulars, Memoranda and Orders of the Local Government Board under the Act / by he author of "The Local Loans of England and Wales". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ini—CIRCULARS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AND MEMORANDA AND ORDERS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD WITH REFERENCE TO THE HOUSING OF THE WORK- ING CLASSES ACT, 1890. L—Circular to Sanitary Authorities and Metrojpolitan Vestries and District Boards. THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890. Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W., Qrd October, 1890. Sir, On December 2nd, 1889,1 drew the attention of tlie various local ! authorities throughout the country to the ])0wers which they pos- > sessed in rehition to the dwellings of the working classes, and urged ! upon thera the great importance of putting those powers in force. I iwas not then insensible of the difficulty created by the fact that • the law upon this subject was only to be ascertained after the study ' of several complicated statutes. With a view of removing this \< difficulty, the Local Government Board prepared and carried through !'. Parliament diiring the last session an Act consolidating the various t statutory enactments relating to the housing of the working classes. - Advantage was taken of this opportunity to simplify and amend tlie law in various important particulars, which are dealt with and ex- ■ plained in the accompanying memorandum.* I have to ask that the local authority will carefully consider the ■ provisions of the new Act, with a determination that it shall not be allowed to remain a dead letter. There can be no doubt that a very material improvement in the : present condition of the dwellings of the labouring classes may be j effected by a strenuous and judicious exercise of the large powers j which are given to local authorities by the Act; and I trust that the I local authority will fully realize the responsibility which devolves on them of putting these powers in force in every case in which the 1 circumstances are such as to require that action should be taken tinder the statute. I am. Sir, The Clerk to the Your obedient Sei-vant, Local Authority. Chas. J. Ritchie. ' The three separate Memoranda, the contents or effect of which are given in ■ the following pages, were forwarded with this circular to Urban Sanitary Authorities, Rural Sanitary Authorities, and the Metropolitan Vestries and ■ District Boards respectively.