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102 SUGGESTED ALTERATIONS IN ACT.
whatever nuisance or inconvenience to the neighbourhood
is apt to arise therefrom.
3. Such change in the definition affixed to your
91st clause as would render this operative for the
regulation and improvement of a larger number of
houses; and such addition to the clause as would
enable you, on the joint certificate of your Officer
of Health and Surveyor, to enforce the opening of
additional windows, where requisite for the proper
ventilation of houses.
4. A clause permitting and empowering you, on
sufficient medical testimony, to remove, or to call
upon the Board of Guardians to remove, from any
lodging-house, within the new definition of your
Act, any person diseased with fever or other infectious
malady, whose continuance there would endanger
the lives of other inmates.
5. A clause prohibiting the occupation of underground
cellars for the purposes of dwelling.
6. A clause prohibiting the keeping of cattle in
or under dwelling-houses.
7. A clause vesting in the Commission a right
to purchase houses by jury-valuation, in any case
where they shall determine that such houses are
permanently unwholesome and unfit for human habitation,
or that their alteration or removal is necessary
for the public health.
8. A clause enabling the Commission to control
all further encroachments on spaces which are now
open within the City; so that on ground now (within