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COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
1. Municipal Lodging House.
The Municipal Lodging House (built by the Corporation
owing to displacement of private common lodging houses due to
improvement scheme) is situate at Pitlake, and contains 101
cubicle beds for nightly letting to lodgers. In addition there are
three cubicles allotted to members of the Municipal Lodging
House Staff, making a total of 104 cubicles on the premises. The
charge per night to lodgers is Is., the cost of a weekly ticket is
6s. for seven nights.
The number of men accommodated during the year was
31,588. The number of men lodgers exceeded 86 per night
throughout the year. The receipts and expenditure for the last
ten years are as follows:—
Receipts. Expenditure.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
3924 1182 11 2 1350 10 7
1925 1346 16 6 1485 0 1
1926 1338 8 7 1639 2 8
1927 1362 14 7 1591 17 0
1928 1346 2 8 1516 7 11
1929 1329 5 1 1483 1 5
1930 1324 10 8 1477 13 6
1931 1385 6 4 1711 19 6
1932 1517 8 4 1547 5 5
1933 1437 2 6 1544 7 10
2. Private Common Lodging Houses.
There were 13 common lodging houses on the register at tl
beginning of 1933, but two were discontinued during the year.
During 1933, 66 day and 22 night inspections were made.
Notices were served for the conditions and defects as set oi
in the summary of defects found (paragraph 7).