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tioned, in passing, that the Registrar-General regards as a house any building approached by a
single entrance—a front door. Thus the seven blocks of buildings known as Campden Houses, in
Peel-street, in this borough, are regarded as seven houses for census purposes, although they
comprise upwards of 100 separate tenements. But the tenements are not self-contained to the
extent of each possessing separate sanitary conveniences, water supply, ash-pit, etc., this
accommodation being common to the inhabitants of all of the dwellings on each of the several
floors. In the case referred to, the Southwark Vestry gave notice of appeal against the learned
magistrate's decision, which, in effect, makes registration law over-ride and practically repeal
public health law.
Registered Houses.—By request of the sanitary committee of the late Vestry a return
was prepared in 1896, showing the streets in which houses had been registered, and the number
of the houses registered, and the number not registered in each street. This return is here
submitted, corrected to date, for each of the sanitaiy districts, as follows: —