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"(b) Where the rent or charge payable by each lodger, and
" inclusive of any charge for the use by such lodger of
" any furniture, is at a rate of four shillings per week or
" upwards.
" The streets chosen were :—In the Parish of Bromley—Eastward
" Street, Hawgood Street, and Bartlett Street. In the Parish of
" Poplar—Gaselee Street, Stewarts Terrace, Charles Terrace, also
" certain houses in Stebondale Street, Norfolk Street, and the West
" Ferry Road , No. 30, Manchester Road was also included. The
" replies from the landlords (within the meaning of the bye-laws) have
" been tabulated as far as possible, there being difficulty as some of
" the returns were not according to the form. It will be seen from
" the tabulated statement that 4s. 6d. and 5s., also 5s. 6d. are the
rents or charges for the most part payable for portions of houses,
" and only in a few instances would any of the premises dealt with
" come under the Board's bye-laws, with respect to houses let in
" lodgings, by lodgers having to pay a rent or charge less than three
" shillings per week."
The replies and tabulated forms were submitted to the Committee,
together with a statement of the rent limitation for exemption adopted .
by other local authorities in London.
The Committee recommended to the Board that, subject to the
approval of the Local Government Board, the following be substituted
for the exemption clauses of the Board's bye-laws as to
houses let in lodgings, viz.:—"A lodging-house shall be exempt
from the operation of these bye-laws, until the landlord of such lodging-house
shall have been required in pursuance of bye-law 5 to
furnish the statement of particulars therein mentioned."
In answer to their communication, the Committee at a subsequent
meeting considered a letter from the Local Government Board
stating their objections to the Board's proposed amended bye-law