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existing regulations should be modified on the basis of the
model clauses. The matter was referred to the Sanitary Committee,
to consider and report what modifications were
necessary to bring the regulations into conformity with the
provisions of the Act of 1891.
The subject being new to many members of your 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 four years ago,
when the Sanitary Committee approved the modified bye-laws
I had 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, and
referred to the Law 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. 50-60 inclusive). To this report I 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 are 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