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model clauses. The subject 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 three 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 had thought it
desirable, meantime, 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 be sent,
and they were sent forthwith, to the Local Government Board for
their sanction. On the same day a communication had been