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practitioners under the Act, and a form of certificate
supplied gratuitously to them.
In the third place, I may call attention to the newly
authorized regulations for houses let in lodgings. Our
regulations in respect to such houses had been in abeyance
for seven years, for reasons fully explained in a memorandum
(see Appendix), which I drew up for the Sewers and
Sanitary Committee, and submitted to them on the 3rd of
last December. It became necessary that our regulations
should be modified; and they were carefully considered and
remodelled in conference between the Vestry Clerk and
myself on the one hand, and the legal adviser to the Local
Government Board on the other; and in their altered form
were adopted by the Vestry on the 5th March of this year
and received the official sanction of the Local Government
Board on the 31st of the same month. They have not yet
been put in force, but will be as soon as the Sanitary Staff
is sufficiently augmented to enable it to cope with all the
duties which new Acts of Parliament and fresh regulations
have thrown upon them in addition to the duties which
they had heretofore had to perform.
I should like before concluding this Report to be
allowed to incorporate in it a report which I made to the
Sewers and Sanitary Committee on the 29th April. This is
a month after the termination of the working year to which
the present Report relates, but prior to the completion of
my Report. I wish to include it, and think it desirable to
do so; first, because in my last annual Report I pointed out
the necessity there would be in the near future largely to
increase the inspecting staff, if all the duties required of it
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