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(4) South-east District.—Chapel Place, Lloyd's Place,
Middle Street, New Street, and Rutland Street.
(5) South-west District.—Barker Street, Emma
Place, Holmes Place, Kensington Buildings, Park
Terrace, and Providence Terrace.
No action was taken upon the report.
The Advantages of Registration.—Whilst facilitating
the work of the public health department, registration of
houses let in lodgings, has given rise to none of the evils feared
by the owners and occupiers of houses proposed to be registered;
the bye-laws, moreover, have worked smoothly and, practically,
without objection by any of the parties affected by them.
The extension of the operation of bye-laws to all tenemented
houses, and other houses occupied in lodgings by the poorer
classes, would, with an adequate inspecting staff, and systematic
inspection, at frequent intervals, 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 the people who, in regard to such matters,
have little power to help themselves.