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DISINFECTION.
During the year ending March 25th, 1888, a large number
of infected articles, clothing, bedding, etc., were satisfactorily
disinfected by the contractor at the cost of your Vestry, the
owners being too poor to bear the expense. The weight of the
articles was 21 tons 8½ cwts.; their number 10,660, and the cost
of the process £421 1s. 2d. Three hundred and eighty-three
rooms in 329 houses were disinfected with sulphurous acid by
your Vestry's officer, no charge being made in the majority of
instances. Many rooms were disinfected by the contractor, as
well as numerous parcels of clothing, bedding, etc., at the cost
of the owners.
REGULATIONS FOR HOUSES LET IN
LODGINGS.
Exercising a power conferred by the Sanitary Law Amendment
Act, 1874, the Local Government Board at the close of
1883, by notice published in the London Gazette, declared the
enactments of Section 35 of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and Section
47 of the Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874, to be in force
in all parts of the Metropolis.
The first-named Section empowers a Nuisance Authority to
make Regulations for the following matters, that is to say :—
1.—For fixing the Number of Persona who may occupy a House, or
Part of a House, which is let in Lodgings or occupied by Members
of more than one Family;
2.—For the Registration of Houses thus let or occupied in Lodgings;
3.—For the Inspection of such Houses, and the keeping of the same in
a cleanly and wholesome state;
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 ventilalation
of the Common Passages and Staircases;
5.—For the cleansing and lime-whiting at stated times of such premises.