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In the same report the Committee stated that they were
about to register the houses in the " Notting-dale " special
area which were not already upon the register, and this was
done. These houses—about 33 in number—are the only
houses that have been registered since the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, came into operation.
I have only to add that registration, whilst facilitating the
work of the department, has given rise to none of the evils
feared by the owners and occupiers of houses proposed to be
registered ; that the existing bye-laws, made in 1885, have
worked smoothly, and without objection by any of the parties
affected by them ; and that the extension of the operation of
bye-laws to all tenemented and other houses occupied in
lodgings by the poorer classes, would, with an adequate
inspecting staff, be an unmixed benefit from the public health
point of view, by enabling the Sanitary Authority to maintain
the conditions necessary to secure healthy homes for the
people who, in regard to such] matters, have little power to
help themselves.
registered Houses.—At the request of the Sanitary
Committee a return was prepared in 1896 showing the streets
in which houses have been registered, the number of the houses
registered in each street, and the number of houses not
registered in the several streets. This return, which was
made for each of the sanitary districts, was printed in the
annual report for 1896, pp. 136-38. The detailed particulars
there given may be summarised as follows :—
District.
Number of
Streets
dealt with.
Number of
Houses
in Streets.
Number of
Houses
Registered.
Number of
Houses not
Registered.
North Sanitary District 7 303 271 32
North-East Sanitary District 3 183 119 64
North-West Sanitary District 8 412 267 145
Central Sanitary District 16 537 393 144
South-East Sanitary District 7 141 100 41
South-West Sanitary District 19 569 393 176
Totals 60 2,145 1,543 602