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sider and report what modifications were necessary or desirable
to bring the existing regulations into conformity with the
provisions of the Act of 1891.
The subject being new to many members of the Vestry,
I thought it desirable to give an outline of former proceedings
with regard to it, in the annual report for 1894. To what was
then said (pp. 191-199) there is little to add now, inasmuch as
the matter stands practically where it did five years ago, when
the sanitary committee approved a modified series of byelaws
drafted for their consideration, and recommended them
for adoption by your Vestry. The committee thought it
desirable to send the proposed new bye-laws to the Local
Government Board, tentatively, with the view of ascertaining
whether they were such as the Board would be prepared to
sanction. After a long wait, and no reply being forthcoming,
the proposed bye-laws were submitted to your Vestry for
approval, and referred to the law and parliamentary committee
and the sanitary committee, jointly, for further consideration.
With a view to lighten 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, 1895, pp. 5060
inclusive). To this report was 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 were 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, July 31st, 1895,
and the bye-laws in the form recommended by them were on
that day adopted by your Vestry, and ordered to be sent, and