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B.—Entry upon Particular Premises.—These, as already stated, may t>9
conveniently divided into (a) particular dwelling premises, and (b) premises other
than dwelling premises.
(1.) Entry upon Particular Dwelling Premises.—These premises include
registered tenement houses, registered common lodging-houses, registered canal
boats, and movable dwellings.
Registered Tenement Houses.—Entry is provided for by the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, Section 94, empowering sanitary authorities to mako
bye-laws as to houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than
one family, and sub-sections (1) (b) and (c) for the registration and inspection
of such houses, and a bye-law made under the latter sub-section empowering
entry at all reasonable times to inspect houses so registered.
Common Lodging-houses.—In London these premises, instead of being
provided for in the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are controlled by the
Common Lodging-Houses Act, 1851, Section 12, by which it is provided that
the keeper of a common lodging-house, or the person in charge, shall at
all times give free access to any Officer of the Local Authority, the Local
Authority at that time being the Metropolitan Police, now being the London
County Council. Outside London these premises are supervised by Urban
Distriot Authorities.
Canal Boats used as Dwellings.—It is provided by the Canal Boats Act, 1897,
Section 5, that a person duly authorised by a sanitary authority, may enter a canal
boat by day (six a.m. to nine p.m.) if he has reasonable cause to suppose that there
is a contravention of the Act, or that there is on board a person suffering from an
infectious disorder.
Movable Dwellings.—The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, provides by
Section 95 (3) that a person duly authorised by a sanitary authority may enter by
day (six a.m. to 9 p.m.) a tent, van, shed, or similar structure used for human
habitation, if he has reasonable cause to suppose that it is in such a state as to be
a nuisance, or is overcrowded, or is in contravention of any bye-laws made as to
such structures, or harbours any person suffering from a dangerous infeotious
disease.
(2) Entry upon premises other than dwelling premises.—These premises include
schools, workshops, with which are laundries and bakehouses, factories, slaughterhouses,
cowsheds, dairies, food premises generally, and offensive trades premises.
Schools.—The powers of entry upon school premises appear to be upon complaint,
or to examine water-supply or drainage, or to disinfect. The powers of
sanitary authorities as to schools are altogether inadequate to meet the case, and
should be more extensive than the powers upon any other class of premises, even
than those relating to factories and workshops. Broadly speaking, schools may be
divided into (1) Board Schools, (2) other schools under the Education Department,
and (3) schools not under the Education Department.