New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-22

consists OF shevings Or straw The same shall be b1rns m
mecistely AFTER such removal
z. The keeper OF this house shall provide Sufficient a.
commodauon Tor washing, together with nf6elsos ~,
ply Of water for The use Of he odgers herein.
g. The keeper OF this house shal reduce the rub-r OF
lodgers OF shan cease to receive and accomDodWs Oag.
ers Altogether Immediately upon receiving notice 10 thlf
saec; rom the MedcN Ohcer, The Inspector Of Nj.
ssnces.
This ticket shall be placed aud kept Ia such s,aauo,
IN this house az he Inspector OF Nusances shall from tina
TO time dTec suc shall be produced AID delivered 70 sars
N s-Tae keeper o. ,ry Lcdgiug.hou,e def.elns or
removing his ticket disobeying The above Rules at
Instructions, viii Be liable 70 he several penalties IN st
behalf provided by BY Laws for reepls irg LolginS.
house,: copy whereof may be oe':ine By application Al
By order Of the Health Committee.
Up 10 the present time, the following are the
numbers Of applications to register, aud OF dodgers
applied for, together with the number Of houses
actually registered and Of dodgers allowed, after
inspection Of the house
Applications TO regsler 80
hoHsss o. - ,,,. ts
Loase's sho"eo ;'.'.,'.,.' 49,
Nearly one hundred houses for the registration
Of which application has been made, remain for
inspection, the registration having been suspend
cd during the late cholera epidemic, from the
was time of the medical health officer having been
absorbed by other duties. About two hundred
others have not been registered, az not being
lodging houses Of the kind contemplated By ,he
act.
The first efec, of the operation Of the by laws
to reduce materially, SIS will De observed, the
aregcr0Udsag of the common lodging hOuses,-e
most prolific source OF evil But the difference
between the number Of dodgers allowed and that
applied for, by no means represents the whole
amount of the benefit derived, as It is well known
that the keepers Of the worst description OF iodg.
ing.houses on finding that the powers Of the act
were about to be enforced reduced the number
of their beds before applying for the registration
of their houses, ana cid not venture 10 ASK for
more than portion, IN some cases not exceeding
one half OF the number OF dodgers they had beer
accustomed 10 receive. IL sholld be stated, also,
as a consequence Of the limited number OF lodg-
ers allowed to the lowest class OF houses, that
many of these have ceased 90 be occupied as
lodging houses, the keepers not finding the oc.
cspation a remuneratiye one, under the restric.
tions imposed in virtue Of the act
A second effect OF the regulations has been 10
produce a manifest and most decided improve
ent in the cleanliness Of the registered houses,
an improvement which mas struck every one &C.
auaDted with their previous condition.
A third effect has been TO improve the rentad.
tiOn of the houses in numerous instances. This
has been chiefly brought about by liking the num-
Der of dodgers to be allowed, In the first instance,
below that which the cubic contents OF the sleep
ing rooms would justify, with the inducementhed
| out that an additional number would be allowed
on certain alterations being made to facilitate ven
tilation. Under this arrangement, additional lods'
ers have been allowed to 100 registered lodging
house keepofa the VI huulbiOHai
so allowed being Ola.
Or the bylaws coming into operation, the in
spectors and sergeRnts Of the police force labout
! rs in NUMBER were appointed inspectors oil iods
ing.houses, with instructions to visit, during the
nisht. any house of the description contemplated
by the act in which they had reason to believe
that nightly dodgers were received, and to lay IN
formations before the magistrates for keeping I'M
registered lodging houses, where they found tnae
such was the case. They were also instructed 20
-i.it from time 70 tsso, the registered lodging
houses IN their respective districts, and to lay in-
formations In oil cases where they found greater
number of dodgers than that for which the house
| was registered. The number of inormatona laid
| by the inspectors up to the present time is, for
Not sppyiogto regser. 81
OVercroWding. ISS
| The number OF instances of overcrowding 40.
pears large, amounting, az II does, to thirty per
cent OF the entire number OF registered houses
But by far the largest proportion of these cases
occurred during the period Immediately following
the commencement Of the operations under the
act when the keepers probably thought they
might violate the regulations with inpunity, not
being aware Of the means which we're adopted to
enforce their observance. The instances of over.
crowding have lstterly been comparatively few,
but the fact above stated shows the necessityof
sustained and constant vigilance GA the part OF the
inspectors, without which there can be bat little
doubt, from the known character of most OF the
keepers, that the regulations would be wholly set
at nought Many o. the keepers have been com
mitsed to jail for noDpay Of the iiHes imposed
under the bylaws
very large proportIon.-proba nine tenths,
of the registered lodging house keepers are
Irish.
With regard to the effect Of these regulations
on the health OF the inmates II Is difficult to give
any statistical results but IL may safely be Affirm
ed that Uer is much less prevalent in these houses
than it was previously 10 the act coming into oPe-
ration. Information is now in course OF prepna'
ton as to the huber of fatal cases OF cholera oc'
curing in registered lodging houses during the
recent epidemic and there can Do little doubt thar
the result will show that the proportion OF such
cases was considerably less than the proportion
occurring among the same number Of lndlyiduAs
in similar rank Of life, living elsewhere.
1t remains TO notice defects in the powers con-
fened by the Liverpool sanitary act, which inter
fere with its working, and preventits yielding the
fail measure of benefit which might otherwise %
derived from it.
In the first place, the limitation OF the provisions
Of the act 10 nightly lodging houses operates IN
juriously. A large number Of houses are subes,
each room being occupied by one or more famlllesi
in some caGes as many as three or four who pays
Ueekiy rent These houses present many OF toe
evils Of the nightly lodging houses particularly iE
the matter OF OreTcr0UdlHR Ia an undlminlshec
form. The act gives no power to interfere with
these; and yet the number OF inmates oil such
houses in Liverpool probably exceeds twenty fold
the number in the nightly lodging houses
The act gives no power 70 fix the number OF
dodgers 10 be received In each room Of the house,
the power being simply to fix the number to be
received into the house. For instance, in a house
containing three rooms, each Of them adapted ia
accommodate four lodgers, and therefore regis
tered for twelve, there is nothing to prevent the
keeper letting off two Of the rooms to a married
couple in each, and putting eight dodgers TO make
up his complement in the remaining room, which
would thus contain twice the number consistent
with health Or he might even occupy the 70.
mainder Of the house with his own family or for
his own purposes, and place the whole OF bis
twelve dodgers in a room calculated only for four
No doubt this might be discovered after time,