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"For the inspection of houses, and the keeping of the
same in a cleanly and wholesome state;
" 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;
"For the ventilation of rooms ;
" For the paving and drainage of premises ; and
" For notices to be given, and precautions to be taken in case
of any dangerously infectious or contagious disease."
In isolated cases, when overcrowding is found to exist, it will
be easy to measure rooms, so as to enforce the provisions of
Regulation 2, which prescribes the air space to be allowed for
each person, according to age; and, in like manner, should any
glaring instance of indecent occupation come to light, it will be
easy to enforce Regulation 3, which relates to the " separation of
the sexes."
These views, which I submitted in my first Monthly Report
for 1886, commended themselves to your Vestry, sharing with
me the opinion that omission to press inquisitorial enquiries
in regard to personal matters, as to " number, age, and sex of
the occupants of each room used for sleeping," etc., would tend
to facilitate the application of the sanitary provisions of the regulations.
The information proposed to be obtained by such
■enquiries would have had little and evanescent value; for "lodgers "
are a migratory class, and "particulars" which may have been
quite correct when obtained, would cease to be so on any and every
change in tenancy.
" Registration " has been carried out under the direction of the
Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee, who, at an
early stage of the proceedings, selected a number of streets, in
each district, containing houses suitable to be registered, and
ordered that in each of such streets every house " let in lodgings
or occupied by members of more than one family," should be
placed upon the register. This course has been adopted, and at