Report to the Sewers and Sanitary Committee of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, on houses let in lodgings.

  • John Syer Bristowe
Date:
[1884]
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Credit: Report to the Sewers and Sanitary Committee of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, on houses let in lodgings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Framed and the Board have sanctioned. Now, I am one of those who think that by the judicious regulation of lodging houses of certain kinds, and in certain localities, very much good might be effected, and much advantage would accrue both to the lodgers and to the public. But it is clear that it ought never to have- been left to individual Vestries, in a place like London, to adopt or not adopt the enactments referred to simply according to their pleasure, still more that they should never have been allowed to frame inconsistent orders or regulations. It is possible that the 35th Section of the Act of 1866 was framed tentatively with the object of learning by experience what kind of regulations were best adopted for the Metropolis, and how best they might be made effective. But if so the opportunity offered by the Amend- ment Act of 1874 might have been seized, not for giving an empty power to the Local Government Board, but for requiring the Metropolitan Board of Works to frame suitable regulations for the whole of the Metropolis, which the Vestries might have been required to enforce, as they are required to enforce other provisions of the Sanitary Acts. It is not too late to do this. J0I1N SYER BRISTOWE, M.D., F.R.S., Medical Officer of Health. January IWi, 1884.
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