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28 SANITARY POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.
Health, or of any two duly qualified Medical Practitioners
in this clause you are expressly restricted
to the certificate of your Officer of Health.
In my two former Reports, I have addressed you
at length on those conditions relative to the dwellings
and social habits of the poor which made the
enactments of this clause indispensable; and I look
forward to its operation with a sanguine belief that
it may be rendered one of the most important boons
ever conferred on the labouring classes of a community.
I subjoin to my Report the schedule which I
would suggest for the registration of lodging-houses,
and which (as you will observe) requires detailed
information as to every sanitary particular of the
dwelling (App. No. VI.) I would recommend that
in every case, where registration is made, the
owner's specification of these particulars should be
accompanied by a written certificate from your
Inspector; testifying (in some such form as that
annexed to the schedule in my Appendix) first, to
the accuracy of the statement, and secondly, to the
general condition of the house.
With respect to the rules, which, under authority
of this clause, you may find it requisite to lay down
for better regulating the residences of the poor,—
the conditions for which you have to legislate are so
various and complicated, that no formula will apply
universally; and you will often be called on to adapt
special rules to particular cases as they come before