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Regulations under Sect. 35 of the Sanitary Act, 1866.
—The Vestry prepared a series of regulations under the
35th Section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, to be applied to
tenement houses, and after considerable correspondence
with the Local Government Board, these regulations have
been finally approved, and steps are being taken to put
same in force.
A copy of these Regulations will be found at the end of
this book as an Appendix.
Insanitary Houses.- With regard to the houses referred
to in the report of Mr. Cubitt Nichols, situated in Little
and Great Bath Streets, Little Sutton Street, Taylor's Row,
Paved Place, Victoria Place, Mount Zion, Prime's Buildings,
Wellington Place, York Buildings and York Valley,
and to which he drew attention with the view to the powers
of the Vestry under the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings
Act, 1868, being put in force in reference to them; the
Vestry found that York Buildings and York Valley were
in course of demolition; that Prime's Buildings and Wellington
Place had been pulled down and the site cleared,
and Mount Zion was in hand with the view to substantial
repair. With regard to the other cases the Vestry were of
opinion that no necessity exists for dealing with same
under Torrens' Acts, the defects found being such as may
be dealt with under the ordinary sanitary laws.
Dust Pails.— No action has yet been taken in this matter,
as the Vestry have been trying an experiment in the removal
of dust daily from boxes placed on the footway in
Exmouth Street, Myddelton Street, and Spencer Street,
and have awaited the result.
Houses Occupied by Poor Foreigners.—Among other
Sanitary precautions the Vestry have directed their Sanitary