should take the place of the large open spaces at the back of small dwelling-houses, which, as I have already stated, are generally so much misused. The model byelaws with regard to new streets and buildings issued by the Local Government Board contain most admirable clauses--valuable suggestions which should receive attention from any town surveyor who has to advise his corporation upon the subject of framing a set of byelaws for his district--but they necessarily contain many clauses which are not suitable equally well for towns in the north, south, east, and west of England. Many of the clauses are too stringent to be enforced, but this arises not from any fault in the byelaws themselves, but rather from the machinery employed in carrying them into effect. To secure all that they require adequate inspection is needed, and this might be effected if there was a fee charged by the urban authority of any town for the purposes of proper inspection of buildings in course of construction; and although it must be admitted that any provision which increases the cost of construction of small dwelling-houses which shall be complete in all sanitary requisites is undesirable, the extra cost of such inspection would be too small to be appreciable, while the advantages arising from such improved supervision would, even from a pecuniary point of view, be of immense advantage not only to the community as tending to improve the public health, but also to the owner as ensuring good honest work in return for his money. In larger and more expensive buildings this supervision is exercised by the architect, but as a rule there is no architect employed in the case of small houses, and the builder is accordingly left to his own devices, with frequently unfortunate results. [153] ‘Model Bye-laws issued by the Local Government Board for the use of sanitary authorities. New Streets and Buildings, IV.’ Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1877. [154] It is open also to question whether in the case of an old building being gradually altered into a new one, it would be possible to prosecute, as there is the following limitation as to proceedings in the Public Health Act 1875: “Any complaint or information made or laid in pursuance of this Act shall be made or laid within six months from the time when the matter of such complaint or information respectively arose” . . . (38 & 39 Vic. c. 55, s. 252). The complaint could not be made when the work was first commenced, as no offence would have been committed, and if made after the work was finished, it might be urged that the offence was commenced more than six months prior, and that the complaint should have been made “when the matter of such complaint or information respectively arose.” [155] Plans are usually deposited with the surveyor as being the officer who would be most likely to understand them.