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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
Infringements of by-laws were brought under the notice of
the Board in other instances, apologies being accepted where the
work had been satisfactorily executed but where the failure to
give notice had been due to an oversight.
Common Lodging Houses.—By a decision of the Court of
Queen's Bench, Salvation Army Shelters are found to come under
the Acts governing common lodging houses. The action was
taken in regard to the premises, 9, Stanhope Street, with
reference to which your Board has, in the past, had to take
action to abate overcrowding, &c.
During 1899, 46 deaths occurred in connection with the
Common Lodging Houses in this District, and 14 of them were
from Consumption. On an average about one-third of the
deaths among the inmates of these houses are due to Tubercle.
House Record.—I explained a scheme in my last Report for
keeping a record of each house in the District. I have now been
able to carry this out for St. Anne's Parish, and for a considerable
portion of the rest of the District, and benefit has already been
found from it. It takes, however, some time to abstract the
information scattered through the various books for past years,
but I hope to have a record prepared for the whole District
before it is merged into the City of Westminster.
Clerical Assistance.—The appointment of Mr C. A. Mudge
as Clerk in the Health Department, has proved of great assistance,
and has enabled the work of the Department to be conducted
more satisfactorily and expeditiously.
Workshops.
The inspection of workplaces is the special duty of Inspector
Martinson, and the nature of the employments chiefly carried out
in the District are set out in the list prepared by him of the work
done under this heading during the year 1899. From the way
in which dwellings and workplaces are united in the same
building, it follows not infrequently, that the house as a whole
has been inspected by Chief Inspector Strutt, so that works of