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Soil Pipes to be Ventilated.
7. The soil pipe of any water closet within a house or
building shall be properly ventilated by means of a pipe
carried up therefrom or by such other method as the Council
shall direct, and any owner or occupier of such house or
building who shall neglect or fail to comply with any
requirement of the Council under this Section for a period
of twenty-eight days after notice in writing of such requirement
and the mode in which the same is to be complied
with, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds
and to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
(Acton).
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
Many of these houses are to be found in the district. Only
15 have been put on the register. This is due to the fact
that it is not possible to carry out the necessary inspections
for this purpose with the present Staff of the Department. In
these sublet houses it is known that overcrowding and insanitary
conditions exist, and no time should be lost in getting to work to
have these conditions remedied.
In connection with the present Byelaws with respect to
houses let in lodgings, it is to be noted that the duty is placed
on the Sanitary Authority of giving notice to the landlord when
his house is sublet instead of making it a duty of the landlord
to give such notice to the Sanitary Authority. In addition,
power should be granted to the Local Authority to place any
house, which is a house let in lodgings, on the register of such
houses, whether notice has been given by or to the landlord or not.
It is found, too, that in houses let in lodgings, separate
sanitary accommodation is not provided for each family. This,
in my opinion, is a sine qua non for any house so let, and power
should be given to the Council to enforce it.
Certain alterations are also made in the size of the rooms
of the houses of this kind, so as to form passage ways or
partitions between parts of the house occupied by different