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In addition to the accommodation referred to in the above table, the Sutton Trustees were
building, during 1929, 540 flats on a site of about eight acres in Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington.
Particulars of the flats are as follow:—
38 one room and scullery bathroom.
127 two rooms „ „
275 three rooms „ „
100 four rooms „ „
540
The rents of these flats will range from 6s. to 15s. per week. Several blocks have been
completed and the first flats were occupied in January, 1930. The total cost of the scheme will
be £301,136.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED OUTSIDE THE BOROUGH
FOR KENSINGTON FAMILIES.
The Borough Council have made special arrangements with the London County Council by
which ninety-nine Kensington families have been placed in new housing accommodation on the
County Council's Wormholt estate adjacent to North Kensington, and have agreed to pay the
sum of £7 per house per annum for a period of twenty years in respect of this accommodation.
It may be mentioned further that the London County Council, in connection with their large
housing estates, allocate fifty per cent. of the accommodation to applicants nominated by the
Borough Councils and reserve the remaining fifty per cent. for applicants on their own general
list. The following table shows the number of Kensington families accommodated on the London
County Council housing estates up to December, 1929.
Families nominated by the Borough Council 242
Families selected by the London County Council 477
Families accommodated as special hardship cases 15
Total 734
In the 734 families leaving Kensington, there were 4,240 persons.
In 1929, Miss R. F. Alexander, who had secured an interest in the Peabody Buildings which
have been erected on the Cleverly estate at Hammersmith, obtained accommodation in these
buildings for twenty-eight Kensington families.
FOOD SUPPLY.
The Food and Drugs(Adulteration) Act, 1928-—This Act, which came into operation on the
1st January, 1929, has for its object the consolidation of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. Being
a consolidating measure only, it does not alter the law relating to the sale of food and drugs, but
it incorporates into one enactment, the legislation relating to the subject hitherto provided in
eleven separate Acts of Parliament. This action by Parliament has very much simplified the
valuable legislation for protecting the public food supply.
The Council's Food Inspector is the Sampling Officer under the Act, and he is instructed to
take samples in any place within the Borough. The samples procured are of two kinds, namely,
formal and informal.
(a) Formal Samples.—These are samples which are taken strictly in conformity with the
requirements of the Food and Drugs(Adulteration) Act, 1928, and during the year the Food
Inspector collected 746, of which 35 or 4.7 per cent. were adulterated. Particulars of formal
samples collected are as follow :—