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4.—For enforcing therein the provision of Privy Accommodation and
other appliances and means of cleanliness, in proportion to the
number of Lodgings and Occupiers, and the cleansing and ventilation
of the Common Passages and Staircases.
5.—For the cleansing and lime-whiting at stated times of such premises."
The Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874, Section 47,
enables regulations made under the 35th Section of The
Sanitary Act, 1866, to extend to
"Ventilation of rooms,
Paving and drainage of premises,
The separation of the sexes, and to
Notices to be given, and precautions to be taken in case of any dangerously
infectious or contagious disease, under the powers of this Act,
or of the principal Act, or of the Acts therein mentioned."
The Nuisance Authority may provide for the enforcement
of the regulation by penalties, but regulations are not of
any validity unless and until they shall have been confirmed
by the Local Government Board.
At the meeting held November 21st, your Vestry resolved
unanimously, "with reference to the large and increasing
number of houses which are let in lodgings, or occupied by
members of more than one family, and to the necessity in
the interest of public health of sanitary supervision of such
houses," to take steps for carrying out the provisions of the
above sections of the Sanitary Acts.
The subject had been under consideration in 1878, when
the Sanitary Department was reorganized and the staff
enlarged, and in an exhaustive report on the work of the
Department, the Special Purposes Committee recommended
(inter alia) that the provisions of the Acts be put in force
by the making and carrying out of Regulations, &c.
No action was taken upon this part of the Committee's
report at the time; but in the following January (1879) your
Vestry referred it again to the Committee, to consider the
steps necessary to be taken for carrying out the above recommendation.
The Committee resolved, in April, to defer
the further consideration of the subject, pending an inquiry