REPORT OF COMMITTEE No. 6. 
The Construction and Hygienic Requirements of Places of 
Amusement in Sydney. 
Mempers oF Committee:—Mr. W. E. Rotu, Dr. ASHBURTON 
Tompson, Professor WARREN, D. J. T. Witson, and Mr. 
Joun Suuman (Secretary). 
THE committee has been compelled to confine its enquiries to the 
City of Sydney, and has been much assisted by a report of the 
Royal Commission appointed on the 17th June, 1886, to enquire 
into the construction of theatres, public halls, and other places of 
public amusement or concourse. With this report the committee 
is in full accord, and appends a copy thereof. 
As far as the committee has been able to ascertain, there is no 
legislative enactment dealing with the subject; but as the 
licensing of theatres is annual, a practical control is thereby 
secured. These licenses are issued by the Colonial Secretary, and 
in one recent instance, viz., the Theatre Royal, the pressure 
employed has been sufficient to secure the carrying out of very 
necessary alterations and improvements, which will tend to the 
greater safety and healthfulness of this building. 
The committee is, however, of opinion that the annexed report 
should form the basis of specific legislation, and that an existing 
body, such as the Board of Health, should be entrusted with the 
administration of the same, and with power to appoint competent 
inspectors and other necessary officials. There is a precedent for 
this course in the position accorded to the Board of Health in 
Melbourne. 
