[Report 1937] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1937
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    with the consent of the Local Government Board or Minister of Health. Gener- ally speaking, he could not be appointed for a limited period, and finally he was given the same powers of entry on premises as those conferred on District M.O.H. by or under any other enactment. A M.O.H. appointed after the Act was prohibited from engaging in private practice. Finally, the Section provided for the cesser of the powers of County and District Councils to make arrangements with respect to the same person acting as County M.O.H. and as M.O.H. for one or more districts therein. This merger of offices, referred to above, came to be viewed with disfavour by reason of the fact that it interfered with the independence of the County M.O.H. and made it difficult for him to give impartial advice to the County Council. In other words, in place of the idea of unity of control the Act de- veloped the idea of the independent and supervisory control of the County M.O.H. The Local Government Board, however, did express the view that in small Counties such an arrangement might be justifiable on the grounds of economy. County M.O.H. to Receive Complaints, Etc. Section 69 of the Act of 1909 further extended Section 45 of the Housing, etc.. Act, 1890 (2) which latter section, as has been observed, referred only to Rural Districts. It provided that the Clerk of a Rural District Council should forward to the County M.O.H. a copy of any representation complaint or in- formation which it was the duty of the District Council under the 1890 Act to forward to the County Council as such. The District M.O.H. is obliged to for- ward to the County M.O.H. any information which it is within his power to give and which the County M.O.Fl. m.ight reasonably require for the purpose of his duties. Disputes between the District and County Councils or their re- spective M.O.H. were envisaged and the section provided for the reference of the same to the Local Government Board whose decision was to be final and binding. Failure to comply with the provisions of Section 69 also entailed sum- mary proceedings against an offending Clerk or M.O.H. of a District Council. County Public Health and Housing Committee. As a further indication of the importance of the public health functions of a County Council. Section 71 of the Act obliged every such Council to estab- lish a Public Health and Housing Committee, to which should stand referred all matters respecting public health and housing of the working classes, and the consideration of whose report was made a pre-requisite to the exercise of any of their powers in regard thereto. With a commendable knowledge of the foibles of over-zealous Committees, however. Parliament expressly excluded
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