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Seventeen of the common lodging-houses, with accommodation for 457 persons, are comprised
in the Notting Dale "special area."
Salvation Army shelters are now annually licensed, but there are none in the borough.
THE WORK OF THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
The Sanitary Inspecting Staff comprises a chief inspector, ten male inspectors, and two lady
inspectors of workshops, workplaces and laundries where women are employed. The table at page
53 contains a summary of the work of the male inspectors (so far as it admits of tabulation) in
their several districts; of which six are in North Kensington; i.e., north of High Street, Notting
Hill, and Holland Park Avenue; and four in South Kensington, three of them to the south of Kensington
High Street and Kensington Road; the remaining district lying between the main
thoroughfares named The work of the inspectors is carried out under the supervision of the
Public Health Committee, the Council having conferred on that body authority to enforce the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 18901903,
and the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, etc.
Supervision of underground work—reconstruction and trapping of drains, etc., was, as from
the beginning of 1905, transferred from the Borough Engineer's department and placed under the
Sanitary Inspectors, who during the year supervised the reconstruction of the drainage systems of
98 premises.
The Sanitary Inspectors are charged with the further duty of collecting samples of food
and drugs for analysis by the public analyst; the number of samples collected last year was 700.
Written Intimations of nuisances were served by the inspectors to the number of 2,402
As a result of these intimations, many works of sanitary amendment were carried out forthwith,
thus realising the object of the legislature, and obviating, in many instances, the necessity for service
of statutory notices. On the intimation form a red ink note authorises the person liable to
abate a nuisance to make what, for convenience, may be called an "appeal" to the Committee
against the requirements of the sanitary inspector. Appeal, which is of rare occurrence, usually
takes the form of an application for an extension of the time specified for carrying out works.
Statutory Notices for the abatement of nuisances to the number of 462 were issued by
direction of the Committee.
Notices under the by-laws for houses let in lodgings, to the number of 1,266, were served.
Legal Proceedings.—In ten cases proceedings were instituted: in seven instances,
for offences under the by-laws for registered houses, the fines in six cases amounting, in all, to £20;
the other case being withdrawn, the required work having been executed. In other two cases, the
summonses were for non-compliance with the Council's notices, a fine of £1 being inflicted in one