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Sanitary Act. These notices have been so successful,
that out of 78 notices for over-crowding, which have
been served during the first three months of this year,
the whole have boen obeyed without any summons
having been heard. The mode of proceeding is as
follows: the inspector measures the rooms, and reports
to me the number of persons occupying them, I then
fix the number of persons who may legally occupy
them; after which, a notice is filled up and served on
the person causing the over-crowding, requiring him to
abate it within fourteen days, under a penalty of ten
shillings a day The occupier is sometimes unable to
obtain other or additional rooms in the time allowed,
when he usually applies to me for an extension of time,
which is always granted, except in very bad cases. It
might be supposed, that an order for a penalty, would
be treated as waste paper by persons who are almost
without money or goods, but as the Magistrate can send
to the House of Correction, any person neglecting to
pay the penalties, the order is almost invariably obeyed.
The only person by whom it was disobeyed, was the
owner of a dust yard, who was sent to the House of
Correction, with hard labour, for seven days, for
refusing to pay the penalties imposed on him for
keeping open his dust yard contrary to the Magistrate's
order. Section 19, is divided into three parts,
the first, as just stated, refers to over-crowding, the
second, gives the Board or its officers, power to inspect
factories, workshops, or work-places, to ascertain if they
are kept in a cleanly state, properly ventilated, and not