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sanction of the Home Secretary at the end of the
year. These regulations have been in force ever
since.
But their enforcement has proved, as had been
anticipated, exceedingly difficult. I looked, therefore,
with some interest to the "series of suggested
regulations which the Board had caused to be
prepared with the view of assisting Local Authorities
in their consideration of the subject." And
anticipating that they would be so framed as to
minimise difficulties of administration, and would in
other ways also embody the experience of those who
had had practical experience in the matter, I was
prepared to recommend the Vestry to adopt them in
place of our own. Another reason why I thought
it might be advisable to take this course was, that
if the Board's regulations were such as could
properly be adopted by ourselves, they would probably
also be found acceptable by the Parishes and
District Boards which have not yet framed regulations
for themselves, and might even, in the course
of time, become the accepted regulations for the
whole of London.
I have been disappointed; for the model regulations
are, it seems to me, singularly crude and
impractical. They are inordinately diffuse; they