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St. Katharine's Road.—In this street there are 111 houses,
of which 12 (including one tavern) are privately occupied, and
99 are let in lodgings. Of these lodging-houses, 92 are registered
and 7 arc not registered. The 99 houses contain 665
rooms, occupied by 477 families, comprising 1,320 persons
(adults 918, children 402), equal to 13.3 persons to a house.
This street is intersected by Sirdar-road. The eastern, which
is also the newer section, comprises 59 houses let in lodgings,
the houses being larger than those in the older (western)
section, formerly known as Cobden-terrace. The 59 houses
contain 442 rooms, occupied by 378 families, comprising 992
persons (adults 708, children 284), equal to 1 6.8 persons to a house.
" Kenley (formerly known as William) Street.—In this
street there are 50 houses, of which 8 are privately occupied,
and 42 are let in lodgings ; of these lodging-houses, 26
are registered. The 42 houses contain 203 rooms, occupied
by 151 families, comprising 421 persons (adults 301, children
120), or 10.0 persons to a house.
" The details above set out, and others with reference to
the lodging and other houses, have been arranged in tabular
form, for convenience of reference, at pages 128 and 129. The
216 lodging-houses in the five streets collectively, contain
1,525 rooms, and furnish accommodation for 1,176 families,
comprising 3,184 persons (adults 2,246, children 938), or 14.8
persons to a house ; and, on an average, 2.08 persons to a room.
Cases of overcrowding were observed, but in all, save four, the
nuisance was abated upon caution, or by service of written
intimations. In 114 of the 216 houses, the rooms are let
furnished, exclusively ; in 84 houses the rooms are let unfurnished
exclusively : in 18 houses there are both furnished and
unfurnished rooms. The registered houses are 183 ; the
unregistered 33. In 90 only of the registered houses is there
a resident " Keeper," the remaining 93 houses being destitute
of the semblance of control and regulation implied by the
presence of some person in resident charge of the lodgings, and
nominally responsible for theobservanceof many of the bye-laws,