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I reiterate the remarks I made last year of the great danger to
the public, and in fact to the world at large, through passengers not
going to the addresses they state, and to seamen being able to
tranship within the incubative period (10 days) after having been on
a vessel where a plague case existed.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
On the 29th of March I reported to the Sanitary Committee as
follows
" With respect to houses let in lodgings. Certain streets were
" selected, and under clause 5 of the bye-laws, the Clerk gave notice
" to the landlords to supply the information necessary for the regis"
tration of likely houses therein, the main object being to find out if
" the rent or charge payable by each lodger would bring the premises
" under the bye-laws. It will be remembered that the London County
" Council, in a letter dated 1st July, 1898, asked what steps had been
" taken for the enforcement of bye-laws relating to houses let in
" lodgings. The letter, moreover, expressed the Council's view that
" the rent of tenements, which exempts the houses in the district from
" being subject to the bye-laws, is so low as to militate against
" their usefulness, and suggested that the Board should consider the
" desirability of amending the exempting clauses (see Medical
" Officer's Report to the Sanitary Committee 8th September, 1898).
" The exemption clauses of the bye-laws are :
" 2. In either of the following cases a lodging-house shall be
" exempt from the operation of these bye-laws; that is to
" say:
" (a) Where the rent or charge payable by each lodger, and
" exclusive of any charge for the use of such lodger of
" any furniture, is at a rate of three shillings per week or
" upwards.