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Medical Officer's Report.
persons about to do any drainage work to deposit with the Sanitary
Authority all necessary plans, sections and particulars.
"The Seats for Shop Assistants'Act, 1899," provides for seats being
supplied in the proportion of not less than one for every three female assistants
in each room of retail shops. It is to be enforced by the London County
Council.
"The Board of Education Act, 1899," provides for the inspection of
secondary schools by officers of that Board to ascertain the provisions made
for the health of the scholars.
"The Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899," empowers Local
Authorities (in London any Sanitary Authority) to advance money for enabling
persons to acquire the ownership of small houses in which they reside.
"The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899." Abstracts of this Act
have already been printed by the Board and distributed in the District to
those who sell food or drugs.
The Local Government Board issued a circular and orders, together with
Model Regulations for Dairies, Cow Sheds and Milkshops, in accordance with
the recommendation of the Royal Commission on tuberculosis.
By an order of the Home Secretary the 17th March, 1899, all cases of
mercurial poisoning contracted in any factory or workshop have to be notified
to the Home Office.
As the result of an important decision of the Lord Chief Justice in the
Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, in the appeal by the London
County Council in the case of Logsdon v. Booth, Salvation Army Shelters
and similar institutions must be registered as Common Lodging Houses.
AREA, POPULATION, HOUSES.
The area of the District is 168 acres.
The population for 1899, estimated in the usual way to the middle of the
year, is 29,853.
The number of inhabited houses in the District at the census of 1891
was 3,437. In 1881 the number was 3,244.
Although the resident population is diminishing, the "daily" population
is increasing, on account of the increase in the number of factories, workshops,
and offices.
Just half the population (49.8 per cent.), at the census of 1891, occupied
tenements of only one or two rooms.