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for the comfort, convenience and sanitary welfare of the tenants are of a most excellent
character. The sanitary work and drainage was carried out under the supervision
of Inspector Stokes, and to give an idea of the amount it may be stated that it involved
the laying of something approaching 1½ miles of pipes. The dwellings may
be regarded as models amongst the finest in the Metropolis.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
Five houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family
were placed on the register during the year, namely—134, St John's Road and
3, 5, 7 and 9, Little Essex Street. The number on the register at the end of the year
was 263. Sanitary notices were served in connection with 84, and in 18 instances
statutory notices were served. Legal proceedings were instituted in one case, which
resulted in an order being made for certain sanitary work to be carried out. During
the year 637 visits of inspection were made.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS.
Application for certificates under the above Acts, in respect to the sanitary
fitness of dwellings for the purpose of obtaining exemption from the payment of
inhabited house duty were received in respect to four dwellings, which were granted.
Applications were received under the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, in
respect to two common lodging houses. By Section 35 (1) of this Act the assessment
to inhabited house duty of any house occupied for the sole purpose of letting lodgings
to persons of the working classes at a charge of not exceeding sixpence a night for
each person shall be discharged upon the house being certified by the Medical Officer
of Health to be solely constructed and used to afford suitable accommodation for
the lodgers and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements. The
provisions of sub-section 27 of Section 26 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act,
1890, apply as regards the certificate to be produced under the section of the Housing
and Town Planning Act quoted above. In both instances the certificates applied
for were given on certain sanitary matters being attended to.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
The licensed slaughter-houses in the Borough at the end of the year numbered
6 as compared with 7 in 1909, 7 in 1908. 8 in 1907, 9 in 1906 and 12 in 1905. The
licence of the slaughter-house at 184, Hoxton Street was not applied for, and has
therefore lapsed. Comparatively little slaughtering is now done in Shoreditch.
The slaughter-houses were inspected from time to time during the year and their
general sanitary condition may be reported as satisfactory.