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As the Municipal Council of Dublin have the power of making byelaws,
they have issued and directed to be posted in each lodging-house
certain rules and regulations to be observed therein, the breaking of any of
which rules and regulations renders the parties so doing liable to a penalty
of forty shillings. If such a clause as that above quoted were enacted in
any Act, having for its object the improvement of the health of London,
and if power were to be given to the local authorities to make bye-laws,
and to be able to enforce their observance by the infliction of penalties, a
vast amount of benefit would soon be experienced by the public
Dr. Mapother, the Medical Officer of Health for Dublin, in his Report
for the year 1865, whilst speaking of courts and rows of small houses
to which there were no privies attached, observes that the owners have
been required to discontinue the letting of one house, and to construct
upon its site suitable privies, one for males and the other for females.
In order to facilitate the better cleansing of the streets, and the
removal of dust, arrangements have been made with the Contractors to
cleanse the several streets and bye places in each of the four divisions of
the district, at certain hours in the day, and to finish the cleansing of the
entire district before five o'clock in the afternoon; and, as regards the
removal of the dust, it has been arranged that the inhabitants of the
principal streets shall be furnished with a card having the letter D upon it,
which card is recommended to be placed in a front window of the house,
whenever the occupants require the dust to be removed. The dustmen
are obliged by the contract to call twice a week at every house in the
district, and, if required, they are to remove the dust and house refuse
therefrom. All the public dust-bins must be emptied daily.
A printed notice is affixed in every court, stating that it is required
to be cleansed by the Scavengers three times in every week, and the public
dust-bin to be emptied every day, and informing the inhabitants where
complaints of neglect are to be made.
A printed notice has been extensively circulated, cautioning all persons
against the illegality of sweeping the refuse of their shops into the public
ways, and intimating that any one committing such offence is liable to a
penalty of forty shillings, and that proceedings will be taken to enforce
the penalty.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN LIDDLE.
15, Great Alie Street.