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have the effect of abolishing the use of all these places—and here again
an additional argument will be found to press forward the consideration
of the proper housing of the working classes—for I venture to think it
will be impossible for your Hoard to relax the regulations as laid down
by the Public Health Act, and I certainly shall be unable from a Public
Health point of view to advise any such course to be adopted.
Houses let
in Lodgings.
I regret that the By-laws relative to these have not yet
received the approval of the Local Government Board, but
when in force I am glad to know we shall have more power for dealing
effectively with the houses which will rightly become amenable to them.
It will probably be necessary to employ additional help to obtain
proper measurments of rooms in houses recommended for registration,
and it certainly will be necessary that a re-arrangement of the duties of
the Sanitary Inspectors should be made to enable them to deal with the
additional work of inspection imposed thereby.
Sanitary
and other
Improvements
1. Doubtless the most important improvement has been
the provision of Public Baths at the cost of
£28,000, which were formally opened by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County, The Duke of Westminster, K.G., on nth June, 1894.
They comprise a First-Class Swimming Bath having a superficial
area of 4,000 square feet, (100 feet in length and 40 feet in breadth,)
containing 127,000 gallons of water. A Second-Class Swimming having
a superficial area of 3,600 square feet, (90 feet in length and 40 feet in
breadth,) containing 113,000 gallons of water. These Baths are provided
with dressing boxes round them, and the First-Class Bath has a gallery
to accomodate 500 persons. There are also 52 Private Baths, viz:—
Men's First-Class, 10; Women's First-Class, 4; Men's Second-Class, 30;
and Women's Second-Class, 8. Since the opening of the Baths till the
present time 120,000 persons have used them.
2. The foundation stone of the Brook Hospital was laid on 31st July,
1894, during the meeting of The Congress in London of The
British Institute of Public Health.