tenements is a family - often two. In one cellar, a sanitary inspector reports finding a father, mother, three children, and four pigs." Yet we find, in the Act previously referred to, the °' duty imposed upon the local authorities to make regulations for fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house, or part of a house, which is let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family, for the inspection and keeping the same in a cleanly and wholesome state; and these powers may be enforced by summary process." The Nuisances' Removal Act of 1855, the Sanitary Acts, including the Public Health Act, 1866, Torrens' Acts, the Artisans' Dwellings Act, and the Street Improvement Acts, have been amended and re-amended. From 1855 to 1882, efforts have been made by law for the three purposes of regulation, demolition, and reconstruction of the dwellings of the working class; and there is abundant power by statute for putting in repair, maintaining, and regulating existing dwellings. If, instead of so much talk, the authorities or individuals used the power they possess, we should see what power the law has to alter the present condition of things. I doubt its power, and that is why the Acts have, since 1855, been useless. The power to remedy is clear enough. By law, "if a nuisance is proved to exist, it not only may, but must be removed." By the Nuisances' Removal Act of 1855, 18 and 19 Vict., c. 121, s. 12, "if the local authorities (the Vestry) find a nuisance to exist, or to have existed when notice was given, and although since removed, is likely to recur, they shall cause complaint to be made to a justice, and he shall issue summonses, and, if proved, make