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manent water board consisting of not more than 30 members,
appointed by the county councils of London, Middlesex, Surrey,
Essex, Hertford and Kent, the West Ham Council, and the
Thames and Lea Conservators.
Common Lodging Houses.
Nineteen of these exist in Westminster, having an authorised
number of lodgers in the aggregate to the number of 1310.
During the year the Divisional Court decided that a Salvation
Army shelter is a common lodging house within the meaning
of the Act, and as such is subject to the usual regulations. In
the summons issued by the London County Council against
Rowton Houses (Limited) for non-registration as a common
lodging house of one of their places in Bond-street, Vauxhall,
as required by the provisions of the Lodging Houses Acts, the
Magistrate said that the " fact that registered common lodging
houses had to be whitewashed or litnewashed showed the class
of house to which that rule applied, and when he found that
the walls of Rowton House were tiled, and the decorations
better than that to be seen at a common lodging-house, that
fact had a great bearing on the case. As a matter of fact, he
found that it was not a common lodging-house, and he was
glad to think that, from the public point of view, his decision
would have no bad effect, because, as the house was now
conducted, there was no necessity for supervision. He therefore
dismissed the summons."
Customs and Inland Revenue Act.
Under this Act certificates were granted during the year to
the owners of 54 tenements in Plogarth Buildings and to
St Ann's Buildings. In the latter buildings, Nos. 1 to 18 were
ordered to be cleansed.
Housing op the Woeking Classes Act.
Nos. 1 to 5, Harper's place, were closed during the year
under the above Act as being unfit for human habitation. The
houses have now been demolished.
Houses Let in Lodgings.
During the year these have all been duly inspected. The
owner of Nos. 22, 44, and 46, Chadwick-street, was fined £9
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