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regulation was made and confirmed, in supersession of the first;
the Acts not providing for rescindment of regulations.
The new regulation, which provides simply for registration
after notice, will materially facilitate our work. It reads as
follows:—
" A house let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family, shall not be registered as such unless, at least
14 days previously, notice shall have been served upon the
landlord of such house, requesting him to state, in writing, for
the information of the Vestry, any reasons why the house should
not be so registered."
"Landlord" is defined to be "the person by whom, or on
whose behalf, a house is let in lodgings, or for occupation by
members of more than one family, or who for the time being
receives, or is entitled to receive, the profits arising from such
letting."
The difficulty above adverted to having thus been got over, the
work of registration is proceeding satisfactorily, and at the present
date (June) 956 houses have been registered. Little, however,
beyond registration has been done, hitherto, to give effect to the
Acts ; it appearing to be desirable to get upon the register, as
rapidly as possible, all houses suitable to be dealt with, so that
the sanitary provisions of the regulations might come into operation
without loss of time. Had overcrowding been found to
prevail extensively, it would have been imperative to "fix the
number of persons " who may occupy the several rooms in each
registered house, and therefore to measure every room; a work of
years, and a course that would have entailed great delay in
completing registration—your Vestry being indisposed to increase
the staff in my department, beyond the temporary employment of
an assistant clerk.
The Nuisance Authority, it may be mentioned, is under no
obligation to make (or having made, to enforce) regulations for all
of the purposes specified in the Acts, and I am of opinion that for a
considerable time to come the most important part of our work
will be to put into operation the regulations which provide:—