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2. For the registration of houses thus let or occupied.
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.
By the Act of 1874, the regulations 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 at the same time submitted a draft set of
Regulations for the information and guidance of the
Vestry.
These Regulations were under the consideration of the
Vestry at the close of the parochial year with which this
Report deals.
Public Health (Dairies, &c.) Bill.—Towards the close
of the Session of 1883, this Bill was introduced into the
House of Lords by the Lord President of the Privy Council.
It proposed to transfer powers now exercised by the Privy
Council and County Magistrates, &c., under the Contagious
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, to the Local Government
Board and to the Sanitary Authorities in all parts of the
kingdom, the Metropolis only excepted, where the Metropolitan
Board of Works would continue to be the Local
Authority.