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and then the informants had complained that their names had been
divulged.
Under Section 48 of the Public Health (London) Act, certificates
that there were proper and sufficient water supplies, were given for the
Casual Wards, St. Leonard's Street, and the newly-erected houses in
Cottage Street.
I gave a certificate respecting a case of overcrowding; the Inspector
found two adults and three children in one room, the air-space being
242 cubic feet for the adults (reckoning two children as one adult).
The Committee ordered a statutory notice to be served, and the
inmates of the room went into the Union.
The Poplar Hospital authorities have built a new mortuary, therefore
the Inspector, on behalf of the Board, is relieved from the
responsibility of seeing the bodies removed upon the plea of there
being no fit and proper accommodation
Bye-laws with respect to houses let in lodgings, or occupied by
members of more than one family, have been made by the Board,
and have received the sanction of the Local Government Board.
It is interesting to know that at the North London Police Court
the Magistrate decided a case as to power of entry of the Sanitary
Authority by their officers. The defendant contended that the Vestry
conld not send an officer to demand admission to his house, unless he
had a warrant from a Magistrate, or a complaint as to the existence of a
nuisance, or knowledge that a case of infectious disease existed there.
The Magistrate explained that the warrant for entry is only when
forcible entry is required, and he pointed out that the Sanitary
Authority could enter, not as the defendant supposed, " in the event
of a nuisance being known to exist." but also for the purpose of
ascertaining as to the existence of any nuisance under Section 10 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which gives the right of entry for
this object. The defendant was fined twenty shillings, the maximum
penalty being five pounds.