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agreed to take up this description of judicial work, and to
hold a fortnightly meeting for the purpose. At present, I
believe, they take Bethnal Green cases only. Application
was made to me by the magistrate to whose initiative this
action is due, to know how the system worked in Kensington,
and it afforded me much satisfaction to be able to speak
so favourably of the results. It would be well if the Justices
in every Division would follow this example: they might
render good service in measures for improving the public
health by the removal of nuisances, &c.
The Local Government Board and Sanitary Authorities.—It
will not be out of place here to mention
that with the view of informing sanitary authorities on the
extent and limitations of their powers, the Local Government
Board, issued in December, a valuable circular letter
dealing with "Dwellings of the Labouring Classes in the
Metropolis," and accompanied by
(a) Digest of provisions as to Removal of Nuisances,
(Metropolis).
(b) Digest of the Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings
Acts, (Mr. Torrens's Acts).
(c) Digest of the Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings
Improvement Acts, (Sir R. Cross's Acts).
(d) Digest of Labouring Classes' Lodging Houses
Acts.
The Board at the same time issued circulars with regard
to the Regulation of Houses let in lodgings, and with
regard to the Regulation of Bakehouses under the Factory
and Workshop Acts. These subjects will be referred to
at a subsequent part of this report.
The Work of the Sanitary Inspectors.—Tables
VI and VIa (appendix) contain a summary of the work
of the Sanitary Inspectors during the year ended March 25,
1884. Ninety-eight summonses were taken out for offences,