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we are now enabled, subject to proper notice,
to enter upon premises and remedy defects in
cases in which heretofore our interference
would have been fiercely resented.
This house-to-house inspection has revealed
the fact that many premises formerly regarded
as private dwellings should be really classed as
tenement houses, since, in addition to there
being more than one family residing in the
same, defects exist in the water supply and
other matters.
Attention has been more particularly directed
to premises and dwellings of the better class,
the occupants of which are becoming more
and more exacting, owing to the increased
knowlege acquired by the public upon all
sanitary questions.
Some of these premises are of great size,
and employ many hundreds of persons. I need
only mention the Bank of England, which
stands upon upwards of three acres of
ground, blocks of offices, as Gresham House,
Palmerston Buildings, East India House,