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and conveniently take the present opportunity of
amending our own regulations where they are
especially inconvenient or faulty, and of incorporating
with them some of the additional requirements
contained in the Board's scheme.
After discussing the matter with the Sanitary
Inspectors, whose practical experience is of great
value, I have proposed many changes in our original
regulations which will, I hope, be acceptable, or at
any rate prove the basis of a new and improved code.
The original and the suggested codes are appended.
The first part of our original regulations relates
to the circumstances and mode in which they are to
be put in force. According to it they are only to be
enforced when the Vestry shall deem it necessary. It
seems to me, for reasons before given, that this rule
is far preferable to that proposed by the Local
Government Board; and it is obviously far better
than the impracticable alternative of putting every
house into which lodgers are received under regulation.
The whole of this matter was formerly discussed
and considered by the Sanitary Committee with great
care; but the process of putting the regulations in
force finally adopted has been proved to be exceedingly
cumbrous and difficult. I have, therefore,
modified one clause, and introduced another, with