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SANITARY POWERS OP THE COMMISSION.
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following:—The owner of his house, or his agent,
or collector, shall visit each room on an appointed
day, at least once weekly, between the hours of
eleven and three; he shall see that the floor and
other woodwork of the room have been properly
washed on that day, that the room be free from all
dirt, rubbish, or offensive smell, that no objectionable
trade be pursued in it, and that it be generally
in good and proper repair; he shall see that the
premises* generally be in a clean and wholesome
condition, that water be sufficiently supplied, and
that dustmen's work be regularly performed; and,
failing either of the two latter conditions, he shall
forthwith lay complaint thereof before your Commission;
in case of any inmate suffering from
cholera, small-pox, erysipelas, or any kind of fever,
the owner, or his agent, or collector, shall immediately
give notice of such illness to the Inspector
of his district; and at the meeting of the Commission
next after such notice, he shall, if required, attend
your Court, to receive any order which you may
issue for reducing the numbers of his lodgers, or for
improving the condition of his house, or for employing
any disinfectant process: and he shall fulfil any
such order within the time therein specified.
In a proceeding so experimental as the present,
I cannot assure you of infallible means for meeting
* Namely—passages, staircases, area, cellar, yard, privy, &c. ;
and if common privies and urinals exist, he shall provide for
the cleansing of these, where requisite, at least once daily.