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Notices Issued.
Written Intimations 621
Statutory Notices:—
Verminous rooms 57
Additional taps 35
Other matters 372
Bye-law Notices 1,216
Items of Dilapidation for which Letters were sent to the Owners (Section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936).
Wall-plaster broken, bulging, or defective 308
Matchboarding defective 6
Wall-paper loose 23
Skirting defective 15
Doors defective or missing 38
Locks defective 54
Ceiling plaster defective 154
Ceiling paper loose 34
Floors broken or badly worn 216
Stoves defective (including fire tiles burnt away, bars broken or missing, oven plates burnt through, oven
doors defective or missing, plates broken or missing) 162
Stove settings defective 6
Flues defective 22
Hearths defective 18
Chimney-pieces loose or defective (including jambs, frieze, or mantel broken, loose, or missing) 31
Cupboard doors defective or missing and shelves missing 3
Window-sashes defective (including sash or sash-bars broken, rotten or defective, beads missing or
defective, putties defective) 305
Window-frames loose or defective (including oak sills worn or rotten) 115
Window-glass broken 242
Copper brickwork defective, furnace pan leaky, furnace door missing or defective, setting defective, flue
smoky or defective 52
Steps to front entrance or area defective 28
Railing to area or area steps defective 6
Guard rails to addition roofs defective, broken or rotten 9
Rubbish or refuse in yard, washhouse, vault, area, under-basement, etc. 10
Vault doors missing or defective 11
Bye-law 17 of the Bye-laws made by the London County Council with respect to lodging-houses
(i.e., houses intended or used for occupation by the working-classes and let in lodgings or occupied
by members of more than one family), requires every owner of a lodging-house to provide and
maintain for the use of each family by whom any part of the house is occupied, and so far as is
practicable on the storey or one of the storeys in which are situate the rooms or lodgings in the
separate occupation of the family—
(a) Water-closet accommodation;
(b) Accommodation for the washing of clothes;
(c) Accommodation for the storage of food in a reasonably cool position with proper
ventilation from the external air wherever practicable, and with protection from dust
and flies;
(d) Accommodation for the preparation and cooking of food;
and, where reasonably necessary, and so far as practicable, the owner shall provide separate accommodation
as specified in (a), (b), (c) and (d) for each such family.
For the present, however, this Bye-law is applicable only to a house which is decontrolled
throughout.
During the year steps continued to be taken to enforce the Bye-law in the case of every
decontrolled tenement house which came under the notice of the sanitary inspectors in the ordinary
course of their duties, and special attention was devoted to certain areas. Notices were served with
respect to 33 premises. In addition, wherever there appeared to be any likelihood of an empty house
being re-let in separate tenements to persons of the working classes, a letter was sent to the owner
calling attention to the Bye-law.
Annual Cleansing.—1,071 registered tenement houses were inspected during the year and
notices were served for the cleansing and other work found to be necessary.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES.
There are two common lodging houses in Kilburn Lane and one (Cecil House) in Harrow Road.
The number of beds for which each is licensed is as follows:—
268 and 270, Kilburn Lane: 60 beds for men.
272, 274 and 276, Kilburn Lane: 105 beds for men.
Cecil House, 179, Harrow Road: 65 beds for women and children.
During the year 63 inspections (including 7 night inspections) were made by the two Sanitary
Inspectors responsible for the supervision of these houses.