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was of opinion that the 35th Section of the Sanitary Act,
1866, and the Sanitarv Law Amendment Act, 1874, should
be duly enforced throughout the metropolis. On receipt of
his communication, your Board carefully drafted regulations
for houses, or parts of houses, which are let in
lodgings; but these regulations have not yet been confirmed
by the Local Government Board.
Sanitary Work.
During the past year the Sanitary Inspectors made
10,045 visits, and served 1,221 orders for the sanitary
amendments of houses and premises; 451 for cleansing,
repairing, and limewhiting; and 83 for disinfecting houses
and rooms after infectious diseases.
The summary of this work will be found in Tables
Nos. VI and VII. Appendix.
The sanitary orders issued by your Board were in the
majority of cases duly attended to. Five owners of property
did not comply, and were summoned before the
Magistrates; these were convicted, with costs, and orders
were made upon them to carry out the necessary works.
Overcrowding.—29 notices were served on owners to
reduce overcrowding in their premises. It may be assumed
that, in a district like St. Giles, these notices do not represent
the amount of overcrowding going on amongst the
poorer inhabitants. The sanitary staff do their best to
prevent it; but the difficulty is in finding the cases. The
only way to detect overcrowding would be to visit the
tenement houses at night-time. Under the present law
the Sanitary Inspector cannot enter a house after 6 p.m.
(a police-constable can legally visit a common lodginghouse
any time, day or night); but even if he could, grave