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adopted by your Vestry, and ordered to he sent and hey were
sent forthwith, to the Local Government Board for their
sanction. On the same day a communication had been
received from the Board intimating their willingness to
approve, with a few, mostly verbal, amendments, the byelaws
which the Sanitary Committee had tentatively forwarded
for their consideration five months previously; these
bye-laws, I may add, differing in some material respects from
the bye-laws adopted by your Vestry, and which are still
(March, 1896) under the consideration of the Board.
It may be mentioned that nothing has been done
towards the registration of houses in fresh streets since the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, came into operation; it
appearing to the Sanitary Committee desirable that new
registrations should be carried out subject to bye-laws made
to conform with the provisions of that Act, as recommended
by the Local Government Board in 1892.
I have only to add that registration, whilst facilitating
the work of my department, has given rise to none of the
evils feared by the owners and occupiers of houses proposed
to be registered ; that the existing bye-laws, made in 1886,
have worked with smocthness, and, practically, without
objection by any of the parties affected by them ; and that
the extension of the operation of the bye-laws to all tenemented
and other houses occupied in lodgings by the poorer
classes, would be an unmixed benefit from the public health
point.of view, by enabling the Sanitary Authority to maintain
the conditions necessary to secure healthy homes for
those who in regard to such matters have little power to help
themselves.