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Leighton Crescent is controlled by a Committee of the adjoining residents,
and the Secretary is Mr. Blunton, of No. 6, Leighton Crescent, N.W.
The Crescent, Euston Street, is owned by the London and North-Western
Railway Company.
The enclosed Gardens adjoining Regent's Park Terrace and Maitland Park
Villas, are owned by adjoining owners of land, and are maintained by them.
ATMOSPHERE.
Smoke.—In the Annual Report for 1902 the enactments dealing with smoke
were set out in full.
There were 316 smoke shafts on the Register; 701 observations of these were
taken, and 44 re-inspections were made after notices served. These observations
or inspections and re-inspections occupy a considerable amount of time, as the
intervals between stoking are of considerable duration—at least twenty
minutes, and otten twice as long.
The Inspectors are now instructed to limit their observation of a chimney to
half-an-hour, and only to prolong it beyond this period so long as a nuisance is
actually being committed. (See Minutes of Public Health Committee of 30th
January, 1907.)
Effluvia. —Of various businesses and places producing effluvia or offensive
emanations there are 127 on the Registers, and of these 127 inspections and
47 re-inspections were made. (See also under the head of Nuisances § 9.)
§ 3.—DWELLINGS.
(a) House-to-House Inquiries and Inspections.— (i.) For the purpose of
ascertaining the mode of sub-letting, 1344 inquiries and 29 re-visits were
made as to the occupation of houses in tenemented streets. (ii.) When the mode
of sub-letting appears to be such as to necessitate periodical supervision of the
sanitary condition of a house a complete inquiry is made into the mode of
occupation of each room of the house. (iii.) When it has been decided to
register a tenement house each room is measured as to its dimensions and
capacity and recorded in the Register. The forms in which the reports as to
these matters are made, were quoted in the Annual Report for 1904.
(b) Tenement Houses — During the year 198 inspections and 212 re-inspections
were made for the purpose of measuring tenement or lodging houses
which it had been decided to register, and at the end of the year 2271 houses
were upon the Register. Of these houses, 2592 periodical half-yearly inspections
were made, and 6237 re-inspections after the service of notices. Also of
the 198 dwellings entered in the Register of Inscribed Dwellings 145 inspections
were made, and 181 re-inspections after the service of notices.