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I think it right here to state that registration, whilst facilitating
the work of the department, has given rise to none of the
evils feared by the owners and occupiers of houses proposed to
be registered ; and that the existing byelaws, made in 1885,
have worked smoothly and practically without objection by any
of the parties affected by them ; and that the extension of the
operation of bye-laws to all tenemented and other housesoccupied
in lodgings by the poorer classes, would, with an adequate
inspecting staff, 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.
Registered Houses.—At the request of the Sanitary
Committee a return was prepared, in 1896, showing the streets
in which houses have been registered, the number of the houses
registered in each street, and the number of houses not
registered in the several streets. This return, which was made
for each of the sanitary districts, was printed in the annual
report for 1896, pp. 136-38. The detailed particulars there
given may be summarised as follows:—
District
Number of
Streets
dealt with.
Number of
Houses
in Streets.
Number of
Houses
Registered
Number of
Mouses not
Registered.
North Sanitary District 7 303 271 32
North-East Sanitary District 3 183 119 64
North-West Sanitary District 8 412 267 145
Central Sanitary District 16 537 393 144
South-East Sanitary District 7 141 100 41
South-West Sanitary District 19 569 393 176
Totals 60 2,145 1,543 602
Many of the houses included in the last column of the
return were not let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family when the other houses in the same
streets were registered, between the years 1886-89. Inspection