§ (1) The local health committee of a county or county borough shall, in addition to the other powers and duties imposed or conferred on it by this Part of this Act, have the following powers and duties:—
- (1) It shall make such reports as to the health of insured persons within the county or county borough as the Insurance Commissioners, after consultation with the Local Government Board, may prescribe, and shall furnish to them such statistical and other returns as they may require, and may make to them such other reports on the health of such persons and the conditions affecting the same, and may make such suggestions with regard thereto as it may think fit, and the Insurance Commissioners shall forward to the councils of the counties, boroughs (including metropolitan boroughs), and urban and rural districts, which appear to them to be affected by or interested in any such reports, returns, or suggestions, copies of such reports, returns, or suggestions, and the reports and returns so made shall include such reports and returns as will enable an analysis and classification to be made of the persons who are deposit contributors:
- (2) It shall make such provision for the giving of lectures and the publication of information on questions relating to health as it thinks necessary or desirable:
- (3) It shall keep proper books and accounts in the prescribed form, and shall, when required, submit such accounts to audit by auditors appointed by the Treasury.
§ (2) For the purpose of assisting local health committees in the exercise and performance of their powers and duties under this Part of this Act, and with a view to promoting co-operation between such committees and the councils of counties, county boroughs, and county districts, any medical officer of health may, at the request of a local health committee and with the consent of the council by whom he is appointed, attend meetings of this committee and give such advice and assistance as is in his power.
§ Amendments made: In Sub-section (1), paragraph (1), leave out the words "(including metropolitan boroughs)."
§ In Sub-section (2), leave out the word "county" ["county boroughs"].
§ Leave out the word "county" ["county districts"], and insert instead thereof the words "urban and rural."
§ Leave out the word "this" ["this Committee"], and insert instead thereof the word "the."
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At the end of Sub-section (2), add,
(3) For the purposes of this Section the council of a borough includes the mayor, aldermen, and commons of the City of London in common council assembled, and the council of a metropolitan borough.—[Mr. Lloyd George.]