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Description: | Copy minutes and reports of committees, comprising the following committees c. 1945:
Housing Committee - to carry out the powers and duties of the Council under the Housing Acts in the provision of houses for the working classes, including the control and maintenance of such houses, and their Estate.
Health Committee:
1) sanitary conditions and general public health of the district
2) Common Lodging Houses and houses let in lodgings
3) removal and disposal of nightsoil and house and trade refuse
4) houses unfit for human habitation, Improvement and Reconstruction Schemes, Demolition Orders and Closing Orders
5) overcrowding,
6) Food and Drugs Act, the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 1919, Milk and Dairies Acts and Orders
7) infectious diseases, and the provision of hospitals
8) Ambulance
9) Health Department
Buildings and Town Planning Committee:
1) approval and disapproval of plans of intended new buildings and streets
2) Town Planning Schemes
Public Works Committee:
1) removal of obstructions, sewerage, drainage etc
2) new streets and street improvements
3) public street lamps
4) drains, public watercourses, public sewers and streams
5) Sewage Works
6) licenses to store petroleum and Carbide of Calcium
7) acquisition of land for new streets /widening of existing streets etc
8) provision of parks, pleasure grounds and open spaces
9) Surveyor's Department
Gas Committee:
1) Gas Works and Gas Undertaking
2) Gas Department
Air Raid Precautions Committee:
1) Civil defence matters, including post blitz arrangements
2) Receipt of reports from the Emergency Committee
Finance and General Purposes Committee:
1) finances of the council, including superannuation, mortgages, employment etc
2) Parliamentary proceedings
3) War Charities Acts powers
4) Clerk, Finance and Collector's Departments
Rating & Valuation Committee:
Rating & Valuations lists and appeals to Quarter Sessions
Allotments Committee:
1) Small holding & Allotments Acts 1908 - 1936
Horticultural Committee:
Advisory work amongst allotment holders and private gardeners, and in particular to encourage the taking of allotments
Fuel and Lighting Committee:
All matters under the Fuel and Lighting Orders
Billeting Committee:
Exercise the powers of the council with regard to billeting
Governing Committee of British Restaurant
1) Arrangements for communal feeding other than emergency feeding delegated to the Emergency Committee
2) Direction and Control of the British Restaurant and the Cash and Carry Centres
[British Restaurants were started during the war to ensure war workers a supply of wholesome food at the lowest possible price. Financed by central government they were administered by local authorities]
Emergency Committee:
To take executive action on all matters of civil defence, including post raid matters, fire brigade matters, and the emergency feeding
Post War Planning and Reconstruction Committee:
Post war planning matters | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Gas supply allotments Fire brigade Housing slums Disease control Horticulture Health Second World War (1939-1945) Local finance Open spaces Food control Housing needs Urban planning Sanitation public works Infectious diseases Electricity supply Parks Health policy Waste disposal Civil Defence | Temporal: | 1945 - 1966 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Sedgley; Sedgley Urban District Council; 1894 - 1966 | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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