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"But this section shall not apply to common lodging
"houses within the provisions of the Common Lodging
"House Act, 1851, or any act amending the same."
A series of regulations (see Appendix) was drawn up in
accordance with this clause, and having been approved of by
the Vestry, was submitted to the Home Secretary, and by
him declared to be in force in the Parish of Camberwell, from
and after the latter part of last year.
The new responsibilities thus assumed by the Yestry
are very important, and it was impossible at the beginning
(indeed it is impossible even now) to estimate accurately
the amount of work and the kind of work that it would
need to bring the regulations into general and efficient
operation. Hence it was determined to employ fur a time
an additional inspector, whose duties should be mainly to
look after lodging houses, and to bring our regulations
into systematic operation in regard to them. Mr. Eraser,
who was already, in another capacity, in the employment of
the Yestry, and who has since been appointed one of the
staff of Sanitary Inspectors, was selected for this purpose;
and from the time of his appointment (early in November)
up to the 25th March, he has reported with all necessary
detail on 524 lodging-houses, which were subsequently
put upon the register; serving 354 notices on owners and
occupiers, and distributing 1,858 cards and copies of
regulations. But other duties also were assigned to him,
one being the visitation of workshops under the Workshop
Regulation Act; the other being the suppression of certain
disorderly houses. His visitations extended to 168 workshops
(to discover which about 900 shops were visited),