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Found.
The w.c. with a deficient water supply 5
„ improperly constructed 2
„ defective as to be a nuisance 4
„ stopped 2
The soil pipe unventilated 3
„ yard in dirty condition for want of paving 12
„ „ dirty 2
„ waste pipe of sink connected with drain 1
„ „ „ defective 1
„ water cistern foul 1
Without a proper dustbin 29
The drain foul 5
„ choked 3
The rain water pipe defective 13
„ house without a water supply 1
„ roof defective 9
„ gutters „ 13
„ paving of washhouse defective 5
Animals improperly kept 12
Overcrowding 6
No ventilation under ground floor 3
BEDROOMS AND THE LONDON BUILDING ACTS.
In the course of inspections of tenement dwellings made
in connection with the Customs and Inland Revenue Acts my
attention has been drawn to certain rooms in a large number of
three and four-roomed tenements in the Borough. These rooms
are intended presumably for bedrooms, although they corresponded
in structure to a ventilated and lighted box-room. These so-called
rooms are small, lighted by an ordinary sash window and provided
with a hole in the wall about 6 inches square, which is guarded
outside by a grating; but they have no fireplace or chimney flue.
I wish to draw attention to the almost wholesale construction of
such rooms recently in connection with the building of a large