| Description | The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. The minutes are in the uniformly titled minute volume. The minutes generally comprise reports of the Medical Officer of Health; lists of house addresses inspected where work or demolition has been recommended; statistics on mortality rates; reports on the progress of slum clearance and redevelopment schemes; and associated information relating to finance and costs of works. The minutes of a meeting of 9 March 1914 also go into some detail about suggested penalties (which could include imprisonment) imposed in conjunction with the local magistrates for tenants who failed to clear condemned properties following the issuing of Closing Orders under the terms of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 - 1909, and associated reports (pages 193 - 195) concerning a corresponding decline in the quantity of available accommodation relative to of rate demolition compared to building, and the general increase in the city's population (see minutes 527 - 528 in BCC/1/BM/3/1/1). The minutes of 21 October 1915 also include reports and associated central government guidelines concerning the accommodation of munition workers (see minute 857 in BCC/1/BM/3/1/1). |