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The by-laws adopted in 1885, still in force, have worked well, and, personally, I could
be content that they should continue unaltered: but with the above proposed additions. It is
true that certain matters with which they deal are "otherwise" (but not differently) "dealt
with" in the Public Health Act, and in by-laws framed by the County Council and the sanitary
authority. There is, nevertheless, a manifest advantage in dealing with such matters in the
lodging-house by-laws, for the information of owners, keepers, and lodgers having duties in
regard to them. Sanitary administration in relation to registered houses is facilitated by the
by-laws which enable the Council to secure conditions necessary to healthiness of the habitation,
without recourse to the tedious process of proving nuisance to the satisfaction of the justices,
by proceedings under the second section of the Public Health Act.
By request of the Sanitary Committee of the late Yestry a return was prepared in 1896,
showing the streets in which houses had been registered, and the number of the houses registered,
and the number not registered in each street. This return is here submitted, corrected to
date:—