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5. The rigid and systematic enforcement of the Bye-
Laws as to houses let in lodgings, or occupied
by members of more than one family—a duty
which might with advantage engage the whole
time of an extra Inspector, either permanently,
or at least for an extended temporary period (e.g.,
12 months).
6. The application of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act to secure houses being rendered fit
for human habitation, without resorting to the
extreme measure of closing them—a line of action,
which is apt to increase the evil which the Vestry
is endeavouring to remedy; and the consequent
obtaining for the working classes of better house
accommodation—a sanitary improvement much
required and much to be desired in connection
with the Inner Districts.
In mentioning the above remedial measures in tabular
form, it must not be assumed that the Vestry is at present
doing nothing in these directions; on the contrary, the
work done during the last year in the Inner Districts is
worthy of special mention in regard to, not only the numbers
of inspections and re-inspections, and the drains partially
of totally reconstructed, but also the houses dealt with under
the Housing of the Working Classes Act, and the few
houses already put under the Bye-Laws as to houses let in
lodgings, or occupied by more than one family. Suggestions
1, 3, and 4, require the attention of the Vestry, whilst,
in regard to suggestions 2 and 5, benefit would undoubtedly
be derived from employing (a) a suitable female Sanitary
Inspector, more especially in regard to the non-notifiable
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