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House-to-house Inspection.—A routine inspection of the
houses comprised in the roads set out below was carried' out
during 'the year by the Sanitary Inspectors delegated to this
particular duty:—
Baring Road
Campshill Road (part)
Carthage Street
Cibber Road
Colfe Road (part)
Collins Street
Collins Square
Como Road
Courthill Road
Drysdale Road
Elthruda Road
Halifax Street
Harwich Place
Hither Green Lane (part)
Holbeach Road
Kneller Road
Ladywell Park
Mercia Grove
Merton Place (part)
Mount Ash Road
Myron Place
Regent Street
St. Stephen's Road
Scrooby Street
Shipman Road
Taunton Road
Taylor's Lane
Treviso Road
Trilby Road
Upper Colfe Road
Vestris Road
Wells Road
Wildfell Road
The total number of houses inspected was 1281, and
in 883 of this number defects were found necessitating the
services of notices under the Public Health (London) Act.
The following statistics afford some indication of the
extent to which houses of this class are being sub-let, as a
consequence of the present difficulty in obtaining housing
accommodation:—
830 houses contained 1 family
354 ,, ,, 2 families
87 „ „ 3 „
9 „ ,, 4 „
1 house ,, 5 ,,
The occupancy of one, two, and three-roomed tenements
is shown in the following tables:—
One-roomed Tenements 136.
55 were occupied by 1 person
47 ,, „ 2 persons
22 3 „ " yj
9
9 4„ 4 „
2 „ „ 5 „
1 was „ 6 „