§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in accordance with Clause 35 of the Public Health Act of last Session, the nuisance authorities throughout the country generally, and particularly in the East of London, have made regulations for fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house which is let in lodgings, for the registration and inspection of such houses, and for enforcing other provisions contained in the clause; and if the nuisance authorities of the more thickly populated parishes have not applied for power to make such regulations, whether it is not advisable that some further steps should be taken by Parliament in order to induce them to do so?
§ MR. WALPOLEreplied, that a considerable number of places had already applied to the Home Office to be placed under the 35th section of the Public Health Act; and twenty-five of these places had got regulations already made in consequence of such application. The City of London, and in the East of London, Poplar, Lime- 566 house, Rotherhithe, Whitechapel, and Bethnal Green had applied and had got regulations. There were many large and populous places in the country which had moved in the matter, and with the same result; and under these circumstances, and believing that the Act was working well, he did not think there was any immediate necessity for further legislation upon the subject.