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REGULATIONS FOR HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The powers conferred on Vestries and District Boards,
by the Sanitary Acts of 1866 and 1874, enabling them to
make regulations "for houses, or parts of houses, let in
lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family,"
are re-enacted in the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
section 94 Every Sanitary Authority is thereby required to
make and enforce such bye-laws as are requisite for the purposes
specified. Your Vestry's regulations for the said purposes
were confirmed by the Local Government Board in
1886. Some 1,800 houses have been registered, and many
others await attention.
UNDERGROUND ROOMS.
The duties of the London County Council, in respect of
the supervision of underground rooms, under the repealed
section 103 of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855,
have been transferred, by section 96 of the Public Health Act,
to the Sanitary Authority, who are required to appoint one or
more officers to report such rooms to them, and not to the
County Council. The new provisions of law with respect to
underground rooms ("cellars" are no longer mentioned), are
more stringent than those of the old Act. Some account of
them was given in my last annual report, page 125.
PUBLIC SANITARY CONVENIENCES.
There are only sixteen public urinals in the Parish—a
very inadequate number. At the date of my last report there
were two sets of public water-closets, viz., at the rear of
the Vestry Hall, and at Norfolk Terrace—both for the male
sex only. Since then about £1,000 has been expended in the
construction of an underground lavatory, with ample w.c.
accommodation and urinals, in the Old Brompton Road
opposite the Oratory. This place, likewise, provides for
the necessities of the male sex only. Section 88 Metropolis