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housing.
Streets comprised in
Group A. Group B.
Alfred Place ( 4 houses) Campbell Street ( 1 house ) Netley Street ( 1 house )
Hampden Street (40 „ ) Crompton Street (14 houses) North Wharf Road (24 houses)
Orchard Street (7 „ ) Dudley Street (14 „ ) Shirland Road (17 „ )
Waverley Terrace (4 „ ) Howell Street (13 „ ) Westbourne Pk. Cres. ( 1 house)
The housing arrangements are set out in Table 43.

P 10
T —number of Tenements containing Persons over 10 years of age, and — Persons under 10 years of age.
10 P
The foregoing table may be summarised thus:—
Tenements Number Total inhabitants Average number of persons
containing— enumerated. therein. per room.
One room 203 394 1.9
Two rooms 148 561 1.9
Three rooms 31 144 1.5
Four rooms 2 8 l.0
At the Census of 1001 the average number of persons per room in each class of tenement
in the whole Borough was—
One room, 1.8 Two rooms, 1.7 Three rooms, l.3 Four rooms, 1.1
Inspections.—The total number of inspections of registered houses, apart from those in
connection with the "annual cleansing," was 3,756 last year, as compared with 3,511 in 1904.
A statement of the nuisances and sanitary defects discovered and dealt with will be found in
Table 44.
Annual Cleansing.—At the beginning of April of last year 1,073 houses were on the
Register, all of which were inspected with a view to the cleansing requisite. This work
involved 4,002 visits, and the service of 1,024 notices of various descriptions, viz., 1,045
"intimation letters," 551 "by-law notices," and 28 "reminders." It was necessary to take
out summonses against 13 landlords of 28 houses. (See Legal Proceedings.)