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The following is the report mentioned above, with the tabulated
statement of work executed, brought up to date:—
By Section 94, Sub-section 1, of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, every sanitary authority shall make and| enforce such
by-laws as are requisite for the following matters, that is to say—
(a) For fixing the number of persons who may occupy
a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or
occupied by members of more than one family, and for the
separation of the sexes in a house so let or occupied.
(b) For the registration of the houses so let or occupied.
(c) For the inspection of such houses.
(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for
promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such houses.
(e) For the cleansing and liinewashing at stated times
of the premises.
(f) For the taking of precautions in case of any
infectious disease.
I must again repeat what I have so often pointed out when it
has been stated that more inspections could be made, viz.: —that
whenever an inspection takes place to secure the abatement of a
nuisance it may ultimately be necessary to bring the circumstances
of the case before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, and all entries
in note books, journals, and the serving of notices and necessary
documents, must therefore be carefully executed in the manner
prescribed by law. I think it speaks well for the department that
for the past fifteen years no summons has been dismissed except
upon a legal technicality or as to whether the owner or the local
authority was liable.
The clerical work of the Inspector for Houses Let in Lodgings
cannot be carried out by a clerk as the inspector must enter up his
register and write out the necessary documents himself. The
following is an outline of what clerical work is necessary when a
house is placed on the register and when various clauses of the
by-laws have to be enforced :—
A declaration form, together with a copy of the By-laws,
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