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that your Vestry's existing regulations should be modified on
the basis of the model clauses. Accordingly, the matter was
referred to the Sanitary Committee to consider and report
what modifications were necessary to bring the said regulations
into conformity with the provisions of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
This subject being new to a considerable proportion of the
members of your Vestry, I thought it desirable, when preparing
my annual report for 1894, to give an outline of former proceedings
with regard to it. To what I said in that report
(pp 191-199) I have little to add now, inasmuch as the matter
stands practically where it did two years ago, when the Sanitary
Committee approved the modified bye-laws I had drafted for
their consideration, and decided to recommend the adoption of
them by your Vestry. Meantime, however, they thought it
well to forward the proposed bye-laws to the Local Government
Board tentatively, to ascertain if they were such as the Board
would be prepared to sanction. After waiting a long time,
and no reply being forthcoming, the proposed bye-laws were
submitted to your Vestry, and, after discussion, were referred
to the Law Committee and the Sanitary Committee, jointly,
for further consideration and report. With a view to lightening
the labours of the joint Committees, I prepared a statement
showing "generally, in what respects the proposed new byelaws
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. (Vide page 139.) The joint Committees
submitted their report on July 31,1895, and the bye-laws in the