View report page

modified on the basis of the model clauses. Accordingly, the
matter was referred to the Sanitary Committee to consider and
report what modifications were necessary to bring the said
regulations into conformity with the provisions of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
This subject being new to a considerable proportion of the
members of your Vestry, I thought it desirable, when preparing
my annual report for 1894, to give an outline of former proceedings
with regard to it. To what I said in that report
(pp. 191-199), I have little to add now, inasmuch as the matter
stands practically where it did a year ago, when the Sanitary
Committee had approved the modified bye-laws I had drafted
for their consideration, and decided to recommend the adoption
of them by your Vestry. Meantime, however, they thought it
well to forward the proposed bye-laws to the Local Government
Board tentatively, to ascertain if they were such as the Board
would be prepared to sanction. After waiting a very long
time, and no reply being forthcoming, the proposed bye-laws
were submitted to your Vestry, and, after discussion, were
referred to the Law Committee and the Sanitary Committee,
Jointly, for further consideration and report. With a view to
lightening the labours of the joint Committees, I prepared a
statement showing " generally, in what respects the proposed
new bye-laws differ from the existing bye-laws, and from
the model series framed for the guidance of the Sanitary
Authorities by the Local Government Board " (vide No. 4
monthly report, April 25, pp. 50-60 inclusive). To. this
report I subjoined a list of streets showing the number of
houses in each which had been registered since 1885, and
a further list of some of the principal streets, the houses in
which, so far as they are let in lodgings or occupied by members
of more than one family, appeared to be proper to
be registered under the provisions of the Act. The joint
Committees submitted their report on July 31st, and the byelaws
in the shape recommended by them were on that day