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3. The imposition of an annual cleansing throughout the
whole house in the early months of each year.
It is not all the houses let in lodgings that are placed on the
Council's register, but only those that are considered to require
special supervision and regulation.
Thus, houses are registered for the following reasons: —
(a) The low general character of their environment—the
surroundings are of the slum type and coloured with the
characteristics of the slums.
(b) The nature and age of the property and the large
number of sanitary notices attaching to it.
(c) The dirty, slatternly character of the occupiers.
(d) The difficulty of fixing the responsibility for sanitary
defects and nuisances disclosed at frequent inspections.
(e) The difficulty or delay frequently experienced by ihe
sanitary officers in getting nuisances abated or remedied—the
taint of the "tardy landlord" and "hospital job" type of
repairs.
(f) The frequency with which the tenements are found
overcrowded or crowded just below the limit.
(g) The prevalence of sex promiscuity.
(h) The frequency with which the houses are found, on
inspection, to be dirty.
(i) The prevalence of tuberculosis in several of the occupants,
or for any other suitable reason which marks the
houses as calling for special supervision.
The houses let in lodgings, at present on the Council's
recfister, are as follows:—
Albert Street: 9, 11, 13, 14, 18,
19, 21, 22, 23, 24.
Albion Place: 12.
Aylesbury Street: 18, 19, 25.
Baldwin Street: 2, 4, 6, 7, 10,
11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23,
25, 26, 28, 30, 38, 53, 55,
56, 57, 58, 59, 60.
Baltic Street: 16, 18, 20, 22.
Baron Street: 6, 17.
Baker's Row: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19.
Bartholomew Square: 16.