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Resolution of Sanitary and Public Health Committee,
April 18 th, 1872.
Resolved—That inasmuch as an amendment of the 35th Section
of the Sanitary Act of 1866 is under the consideration of
Parliament in the Public Health Bill, introduced by the
Government, the question of putting1 in force the provisions
of such Section be deferred until the fate of the Government
measure be known.
Extracts from the Sanitary Act of 18 66,
Section 35.
On application to one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State
by the Nuisance Authority of the city of London, or any district or parish
included within the Act for the better local government of the metropolis,
or of any municipal borough, or of any place under The Local Government
Act, 1858, or any Local Improvement Act, or of any city or town containing,
according to the census for the time being in force, a population of not
less than five thousand inhabitants, the Secretary of State may, as he may
think fit, by notice to be published in the London Gazette, declare the
following enactment to be in force in the district of such nuisance authority,
and from and after the publication of such notice the nuisance authority
shall be empowered to make regulations for the following matters; that is
to say,
1. For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part
of a house 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 nuisance authority may provide for the enforcement of the above
regulations by penalties not exceeding forty shillings for any one offence,
with an additional penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day
during which a default in obeying such regulations may continue; but
such regulations shall not be of any validity unless and until they shall
have been confirmed by the Secretary of State.
But this section shall not apply to common lodging houses within the
provisions of The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, or any Act
amending the same.
J. MORTON, PRINTER, STAR STREET, EDGM'ARE ROAD.