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but a common passage, and common staircases on which open a number of front doors which
may be locked, the tenements being separately occupied. If any one of those tenements were
let in lodgings, or if a room were occupied by members of more than one family, then the
particular landlord of that particular house would come within the terms of the section. His
lordship expressed the opinion that it would be going too far to say that the whole structure
of bricks and mortar was a house, or part of a house, let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family, simply because these were separate tenements, and separate occupations,
under the circumstances stated in the case. He thought, therefore, the judgment of the magistrate
was quite right; and, the other judges concurring, the appeal of the late Yestry, whose
district is now merged in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, was dismissed with costs.
In this borough we have never attempted to register artisans' dwellings. Many houses
let in tenements have been registered, but I do not think the judgment in the case cited can
be held to apply to such houses: each has its "front door," and there is no " common staircase,"
or " common passage," open to the public, giving access to the doors of the several tenements:
the landlord, moreover, "exercises control," being responsible for the condition of the sanitary
and other conveniences used in common by the lodgers."
Common Lodging-Houses.—The County Council in 1894 took over from the police the
supervision of common lodging-houses, under the circumstances set out in my annual report for
1893 (p. 207). I am indebted to the Council's Medical Officer of Health for the subjoined return
of the common lodging-houses in this borough, which are 33 in number, and contain accommodation
for 1,019 persons.

Twenty-three of the common lodging-houses, with accommodation for 706 persons (100 of
them in double beds) are comprised in the "Notting-dale " special area.