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1—35, Grindal Street, Lower Marsh.—26 houses
containing 121 rooms, in which are housed 73
families, consisting of 270 persons, of whom 188
are over 10 years of age, and at rents varying
from 2s 6d. to 7s. per week respectively;
74, Lower Kennington Lane.—One house containing
17 rooms, in which are housed 12 families, consisting
of 45 persons, of whom 34 are over 10 years
of age, and at rents varying from 2s. 6d. to 6s. per
week respectively;
32—49, Brad Street, Commercial Road.—17 houses
(the only ones at present occupied), containing
69 rooms, in which are housed 50 families, consisting
of 192 persons, of whom 122 are over 10
years of age, and at rents varying from Is. to
6s. per week respectively;
1—47, Johanna Street.—25 houses (the only ones at
present occupied), containing 139 rooms, in which
are housed 87 families, consisting of 261 persons,
of whom 171 are over 10 years of age, and at
rents varying from 2s. to 6s. per week respectively.
The Vestry have, therefore, during the year 1897,
selected for registration a total of 93 houses, containing
566 rooms, in which are housed 282 families, consisting of
992 persons, of whom 682 are over 10 years of age.
The object in view in selecting houses is only to register
those that cannot be satisfactorily inspected and supervised
otherwise, and where there is reason to believe that overcrowding
and other insanitary conditions exist to such an
extent as to be a nuisance and a danger to health. For it musl
be remembered that registered houses, are to be regularly
under supervision and inspection, and overcrowding (with its
sanitary, social, and moral dangers) thereby minimized, if
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