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Van dwellings are frequently inspected, and during the year
none of the vans were found to be overcrowded. Ten vans were
unoccupied.
Model Dwellings—Lighting of Staircases.
Under the provisions of Section 61 of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1927, the owner of every tenement
building intended or used for occupation by the working classes
is required (a) wherever practicable to provide every common
staircase with adequate means of lighting by natural light, including
(in the case of a building constructed or reconstructed after the
commencement of the Act) a window or windows or opening or
openings on the staircase of each storey opening directly into the
external air; and (b) to provide adequate means for the artificial
lighting of every common staircase, and to keep such means efficient
and lighted daily from one hour after sunset until 11 o'clock in
the afternoon. In the case of a common staircase leading to not
more than two separate or self-contained flats or tenements in a
two-storey tenement building the owner is not required to make
provision for artificial lighting.
There are in the Borough some 170 dwellings which appear
to come within the purview of the Section, and in all but 61 cases
these provisions were already being complied with. Of these
61 cases 49 are provided with artificial lighting, but owing to the
structural difficulties it was found impracticable to provide natural
lighting. Of the remaining 12 cases natural light was provided, but
not artificial. As a result of negotiation with the owners concerned,
artificial lighting has now been installed except in the case of two
blocks of dwellings, which were still the subject of action at the
end of the year.
* Including one shed. † Including one cottage.