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to adjudicate upon our cases. The result has been a considerable
decline in the number of summonses issued, every effort having
been made to keep away from the Police Court with all its
vexatious delays.
The 81st section of the Housing of the Working Classes
Act, 1890, gives power to the Local Authority to appoint Committees
"for any purposes of the Act which in the opinion of
such Authority would be better regulated and managed by
means of a committee." I recommended the appointment of
a Committee for the regulation and management of business
arising under the Act, and your Vestry delegated the necessary
powers to the Works and Sanitary Committee, as well as the
powers which the Sanitary Authority were authorised in 1891 to
delegate to a Committee under the Public Health Act and the
Factory Acts, as already set out.
THE WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
Tables VI. and VIa. (Appendix) contain a summary of
the work of the Sanitary Inspectors during the year ending
March 25th, 1892. One hundred and sixteen summonses
were taken out, viz., under the Nuisances Removal Acts, 75 ;
the Lodging-house Regulations, 18 ; for non-removal of manure,
under the 5ord section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, 16 ; and for
disobedience of Justices' Orders, 7. The number of summonses
in the previous year was 159. Orders were made in
the 75 cases under the Nuisances Removal Acts, inter alia,
for the execution of works as follows
To repair, cleanse, and white-wash walls of rooms, &c., 24
To provide a supply of water to water-closets 41
To disconnect waste-pipes of cisterns, sinks', &c.,
and rain-water pipes from drains 33
To repair, cleanse, and unstop drains 14
To ventilate drains or soil-pipes 19