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Appendix, p. 77). This decision of the Council arose in answer
to a letter from the London County Council, dated March 8th,
1905, stating that "the staff of Inspectors in Lambeth is not
adequate for the needs of the district, and urging the desirableness
of increasing the number of Inspectors, so as to provide for
the efficient enforcement of the Bye-laws relating to Houses Let
in Lodgings, and for the proper execution of the duty placed
upon the Borough Council by section 1 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891 (i.e., House to House Inspection)."
The appointments were approved by the Local Government
Board in October, 1905.
A new Inspectorial District has been made by the Council and
is in the Tulse Hill Ward, a triangular area bounded by Brixton
Hill, Lyham Road and Acre Lane, and containing (estimated at
Census 1901) an area of 170 acres, with 1,531 inhabited houses
and 9,191 population. This new District has been given to
Inspector Wallis, whose old District (Bishop's Ward) has been
transferred to Inspector J. S. Clements, as and from Jan. 1st,
1906. The new district being small in area, Inspector Wallis has
been appointed to carry out systematic house to house inspections
in Bishop's Ward, where such inspections are much needed.
House to house inspections in the other Districts are to be carried
out periodically by the different District Inspectors concerned.
In connection with the appointment of one extra female
Inspector, the Borough has been divided by the Council into two
parts, separated by Clapham and Kennington Park Roads—the
northern portion (inner wards) to be under the supervision of
Miss Pearson, and the southern portion (outer wards) under
that of Miss Gamble. The duties of the female Inspectors
include the supervision of factories, workshops and workplaces;
houses in which births (or deaths of infants under one year of
* Mr. John Stephen Clements (Inspector at Shoreditch) and Miss Lucy
Marion Heath Pearson (Inspector at Leeds) were appointed by the Council
on November 23rd, 1905, and their appointments confirmed by the Local
Government Board on December 15th, 1905, their duties to commence on
January 1st, 1906.