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2. Bye-laws with respect to nuisances (limiting the time
for removal of offensive matter through the streets).
3. Regulations as to Glanders or Farcy.
4. Regulations as to Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
5. Bye-laws as to slaughterhouses.
6. Ditto as to New Streets and Buildings.
7. „ Pleasure Grounds.
8. „ Allotments.
9. „ Locomotives Act, 1898.
10. Ditto under Good Rule and Government of the Borough.
11. Ditto as to Female Domestic Servants Registries.
Common Lodging Houses.
There are none in the District.
Cellar Dwellings.
There are an increasing number of premises within the
Borough which come within the definition of cellar dwellings.
The premises referred to are basement houses, many of
which are let off to two or more families ; the basement usually
being let off separately to one family.
Frequent inspections of such premises are necessary,
as in the majority of cases the structures do not comply
with the requirements of the Public Health Act and the
Housing Act relating to cellar dwellings.
Rooms or premises of this description come within the
meaning of Section 17 (7) of the Housing, &c., Act, 1909.
As there are a considerable number of basement houses in
the Borough, it would be advantageous if the Council were to
frame regulations to deal with the basement sleeping rooms.
Section 17 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909,
reads:—" A room habitually used as a sleeping place, the
surface of the floor of which is more than three feet below
the surface of the part of the street adjoining or nearest to the
room, shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to be a
dwelling-house so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit
for human habitation, if the room either—