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the result that the changes necessary to render the building sanitary 

 have been duly carried out." 



British Columbia With regard to town planning, the province of British 

 Town Planning Columbia has in the Municipal Code a provision which 

 has not as yet been adopted in any other province so 

 far as can be ascertained. It is as follows: 



249. All future surveys into building lots of property 

 within a city, or of property which is contiguous to the bound- 

 aries of a city, by owners and others, shall be subject to the 

 approval of the City Engineer and the Mayor when the city 

 has a City Engineer, or the approval of the Mayor when the 

 city has not a City Engineer; and no plan of such survey shall 

 be registered unless it bears a certificate of such approval, but 

 such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. 



250. The City Engineer, where the city has such an offi- 

 cial, or the Mayor, where the city has not a City Engineer, 

 may sanction the subdivision of any property already sub- 

 divided into building lots, and every plan of subdivision of 

 such lots shall be certified by the City Engineer, or by the 

 Mayor when the city has not a City Engineer, as having been 

 approved before registration thereof. 



The Municipal Act of Ontario provides that councils of cities 

 and towns and villages may pass by-laws regarding dwellings on 

 narrow streets, as follows: 



1. For regulating the erection or occupation of dwell- 

 ings on narrow streets, lanes or alleys, or in crowded or un- 

 sanitary districts, and for preventing in the case of cities of 

 upwards of 100,000 the erection of dwellings, or the altera- 

 tion of other buildings for such purpose if the same front on 

 a street less than 40 feet in width, unless such street has been 

 duly laid out and accepted by the municipality as a public 

 highway. 



An indication of the activity of the health authorities of Winni- 

 peg is contained in the following extract from the report of Dr. A. 

 J. Douglas, Medical Officer of Health,* who, in referring to the new 

 laws, states: 



"The Legislature has granted an amendment to the City 

 Charter, conferring upon the City powers to enact by-laws, 

 defining, regulating, governing and controlling all matters 

 connected with the air space, the ventilation, the fire proof 

 character, the sanitation, the size of the rooms, the position 

 of public corridors, the position, number, character of all 



* Annual Report on the Public Health of the City of Winnipeg, 1909. 



