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SANITARY POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.
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ferent sexes; nor more than such persons, if.
they be all of one sex.*
This order, in addition to its wholesome influence
on the second class of lodging-houses, would apply
beneficially to the third class ; and, in further relation
to the latter, there would probably be required
various minor regulations with respect to facilities
for washing, for lighting, for ventilation, and the
like, which admit of being fixed in detail, only as
each particular case comes under your notice, with
its deficiencies recorded in the schedule of its registration.
11. In addition to this power of regulating
lodging-houses, a further authority has been conceded
you by the Legislature, for the amendment or
removal of houses presenting aggravated structural
faults. "Wherever your Officer of Health may certify
to you that any house or building is permanently
unwholesome and unfit for human habitation,
you are empowered to require of the owner (or, in
his neglect, yourselves to undertake) the execution
of whatever works may be requisite for rendering
the house habitable with security to life.
Finally,—under your former Act you were authorised,
and indeed required, to appoint Inspectors
* The number would be proportioned to the cubical contents
of the room, and its facilities for ventilation, of which mention
would be made in the registration-schedule of the house.
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