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The requirements here detailed are to be looked upon as a minimum, and a certain amount
of latitude is obviously intended so that Sanitary Authorities will be enabled to adapt their methods
to the requirements of their districts. For instance, no inquiry would be complete which did not
deal with the cubic capacity of rooms in relation to the number of inhabitants, especially as the
Board may require details on this point under Section 37.
In the scheme which I here recommend all the above requirements of the Local Government
Board are met, and certain other useful and, I might say, indispensable information is
included. The Board suggest the use of the card system or loose-leaved books for keeping records,
and I am recommending the former as being very compact and convenient, where quick and ready
reference to any house is required.
In a previous report the number of dwelling houses in Bermondsey is estimated at nearly
20,000, counting each tenement in the block dwellings as one house. Since, therefore, a house-tohouse
inspection on the lines laid down by the Board would take a long time with the present staff
of Inspectors and clerks, I have, with the assistance of the district Inspectors, made out a list of
the streets containing the worst properties in the Borough, and propose to subject them first to a
systematic house-to-house inspection. The majority of the houses should be examined every six
months, but as the first examination will be the most difficult, inasmuch as it involves measuring up
the various rooms, it is impossible to say how far this can be carried out till the primary inspection
is made. The list here given is far from perfect, for a few good houses may be included among
the insanitary ones, and there are no doubt isolated houses omitted which should have been included.
There are also many houses and streets which, while not requiring so frequent inspection as here
suggested, still require inspection at intervals of from one to two years, and these houses might well
be included in a second list, when the inspection of this first batch is completed. The primary
inspection will naturally take place in some districts sooner than others, since there is a considerable
difference in the amount of insanitary property in the various districts.
Aberdour Street
Adams Gardens
Ainsty Street
Alice Street
Ambrose Street
Anchor Street
Arica Place
Aylton Street
Baffins Place
Bantry Place
Banville Grove
Barnham Street
Beatson Street
Bell Court
Bermondsey Buildings
Bermondsey Square
Bethel Place
Bisley Cottages
Black Swan Yard
Blackman's Court
Brunel Road.
Bryants Alley
Carmarthen Place
Caroline Court
Castles Buildings,
Derrick Street
Charlotte Place
Clarehall Place
Clarks Orchard
Cluny Place
Corbetts Lane
Coxon Place
Crosby Row
Cusack Place
Davis Buildings
Decima Street
Dix's Place
Dunlop Place
List of Streets Requiring Special Inspection.
Kintore Street
Edward House
Lagos Place
Earls Cottages
Lamb Alley
Eckett Street
Landrail Place
Edmund Place
Leroy Street
Elephant Lane
Little Maze Court
Elim Street
Llama Place
Elizabeth Place
Lawrence House
Emba Street
Lynton Mews
English Ground
Enid Street (46-60)
Farthing Alley
Faustin Place
Finnimore Place
Flockton Street
Fort Passage
Foxlow Street
Fulford Street (No. 14)
Gareth Place
George Court
Gibbons Rents
Gilhams Court
Goulston Buildings
Great Maze Court
Guttridge Court
Great Russell Street
Halfpenny Alley
Hargrave Place
Hargrave Square
Hatteraick Street
Hickmans Court
Hickmans Folly
Iphigenia Cottages
Irwell Place
Jacob Street
James Place
Jane way Street
King's Arms Place
Kinross Street
Mariners Buildings
Marshalls Place
Maze Pond
Medley Place
Mellicks Place
Musk Court
Napoleon Court
Neckinger Place
Nolan Place
Oran Place
Osborne Buildings
Pepin Place
Paragon Alley
Parfitt Road (35 to 59)
Parkers Buildings
Paulin Place
Paulin Street
Pleasant Row
Porlock Place
Princes Place
Prospect Street
Purnell Place
Queen's Place
Regia Place
Risdon Street
Rotherhithe Street (348
to 352 and 370 to 374)
Rowleys Buildings
Rudyard Place
St. Marychurch Street
St. Mary's Place
Salisbury Street
Sards Rents
Sarnells Court
Sedgers Buildings
Sernes Alley
Snowsfields
Star Place
Sun Street
Surrey Buildings
Shakespeare House
Tay Buildings
Thetford Place
Tilbury Place
Trinity Road
Truscott Court
Turners Retreat
Tyers Gateway
Vauban Street
Victoria Place
Vine Street
Virginia Row
Warford Place
West Lane (34 to 62)
Whites Court
Whites Grounds
White Lion Court
Wilderness Street
Wilds Rents
Winter Square
Wolseley Buildings
Wolseley Street
Woodlands Place
Woods Place
Wormald Place
Number of Houses in each Inspector's District Requiring Special Inspection.
District No. 1. Mr. Grice 263 houses.
District No. 5. Mr. Freeman 160 houses.
„ 2. Mr. Wood 514 „
„ 6. Mr. Bartlett 77 „
„ 7. Mr. Townsend 527 „
„ 3. Mr. Merryman 314 „
„ 4. Mr. Toogood 544 „
„ 8. Mr. Cockburn 107 „
Total 2,506 „
The card which I have drawn up, and a copy of which is enclosed, is intended to contain what
seems to me only necessary information, and the tabulated form for "particular rooms" is designed
to save clerical labour. This card (10 by 8 inches) may appear somewhat large, but where wilting