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1. For fixing the number of persons who may
occupy a house or part of a houes which
is let in lodgings or occupied by members
of more than one family:
2. For the registration of houses thus let or
occupied in lodgings:
3. For the inspection of such houses, and the
keeping the same in a cleanly and wholesome
state:
4. For enforcing therein the provision of privy
accommodation and other appliances and
means of cleanliness in proportion to the
number of lodgings and occupiers, and the
cleansing and ventilation of the common
passages and staircases:
5. For the cleansing and lime-whiting at
stated times of such premises.
The Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874,
enacts in Section 47, that regulations under the
above-mentioned section may extend to "ventilation
of rooms, paving and drainage of premises, the
separation of the sexes, and to notices to be given
and precautions to be taken in case of any dangerously
infectious or contagious disease."
The Board trust that the Vestry will proceed
without delay to make regulations in pursuance of