CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8] — Page 77

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the subject. The Sanitary Board, at the request of the Government, deliberated upon the Report of this Commission and submitted an unanimous report of its own, dated June 9th, 1898, dealing fully with the various points raised by the evidence taken before the Commission and making a number of suggestions which, if adopted, would unquestionably tend largely to abate this surface crowding. As a result of all this, a Bill was read for the first time in the Legislative Council on the 22nd November 1898, but this Bill has not yet become law. The recommendations made by the Board in that Report comprise (1) the provision of backyards or areas; (2) the amendment of the present regulations concerning the height of buildings whereby a house fronting a street 15 feet 1 inch in width may be as high as one fronting a street 20 feet in width; (3) Revised rules as to cocklofts and cubicles; (4) draining and lighting of private streets and lanes and one or two other smaller matters, and I submit for the consideration of His Excellency that these recommendations are most temperate and reasonable and would urge that they be adopted by the Legislature of this Colony at an early date. The Board have done something in the meantime to abate this surface overcrowding, for I may mention that

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75 the subject. The Sanitary Board, at the request of the Government, deliberated upon the Report of this Commission and submitted an unanimous report of its own, dated June 9th, 1898, dealing fully with the various points raised by the evidence taken before the Commission and making a number of suggestions which, if adopted, would unquestionably tend largely to abate this surface crowding. As a result of all this, a Bill was read for the first time in the Legislative Council on the 22nd November 1898, but this Bill has not yet become law. The recommendations made by the Board in that Report comprise (1) the provision of backyards or areas; (2) the amendment of the present regulations concerning the height of buildings whereby a house fronting a street 15 feet 1 inch in width may be as high as one fronting a street 20 feet in width; (3) Revised rules as to cocklofts and cubicles; (4) draining and lighting of private streets and lanes and one or two other smaller matters, and I submit for the consideration of His Excellency that these recommendations are most temperate and reasonable and would urge that they be adopted by the Legislature of this Colony at an early date. The Board have done something in the meantime to abate this surface overcrowding, for I may mention that

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75 the subject. The Sanitary Board, at the request of the Govern ment, deliberated upon the Report of this Commission and submit- ted an unanimous report of its own, dated June 9th. 1898, deal- ing fully with the various points raised by the evidence taken before the Commission and making a number of suggestions which if adopted, would unquestionably tend largely to abate this surface crowding. As a result of all this, a Bill was read for the first time in the Legislative Council on the 22nd November 1898, but this Bill has not yet become law. The recom- mendations made by the Board inthat Report comprise (1) the in that provision of backyards or areas; (2) the amendment of the present regulations concerning the height of buildings whereby a house fronting a street 15 feet 1 inch in width may be as high as one fronting a street 20 feet in width; (3) Revised rules as to cocklofts and cubicles; (4) draining and lighting of private streets and lanes and one or two other smaller matters, and I submit for the consideration of His Excellency that these recommendations are most temperate and reasonable and would urge that they be adopted by the Legislature of this Colony at an early date The Board have done something in the meantime to abate this surface overcrowding, for I may mention that

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the subject. The Sanitary Board, at the request of the Govern

ment, deliberated upon the Report of this Commission and submit-

ted an unanimous report of its own, dated June 9th. 1898, deal-

ing fully with the various points raised by the evidence taken

before the Commission and making a number of suggestions which

if adopted, would unquestionably tend largely to abate this

surface crowding. As a result of all this, a Bill was read

for the first time in the Legislative Council on the 22nd

November 1898, but this Bill has not yet become law. The recom-

mendations made by the Board inthat Report comprise (1) the

in that

provision of backyards or areas; (2) the amendment of the

present regulations concerning the height of buildings whereby

a house fronting a street 15 feet 1 inch in width may be as

high as one fronting a street 20 feet in width; (3) Revised

rules as to cocklofts and cubicles; (4) draining and lighting

of private streets and lanes and one or two other smaller

matters, and I submit for the consideration of His Excellency

that these recommendations are most temperate and reasonable

and would urge that they be adopted by the Legislature of this

Colony at an early date The Board have done something in the

meantime to abate this surface overcrowding, for I may mention

that

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