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I have only to add 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; that the existing bye-iaws, made in 1885,
have worked smoothly, and without objection by any of the
parties affected by them; and that the extension of the
operation of the bye-laws to all tenemented and other houses
occupied 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 last year, 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. I subjoin a copy of the
return, which was made for each of the sanitary districts,
as follows:—