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157
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS OR TO
MEMBERS OF MORE THAN ONE FAMILY.
Suggested further Legislation with respect to Furnished
Rooms—Proposed License; London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1907, Section 78—Water Supply
in Tenement Houses; London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1909—Storage of Food.
At the end of the year there were 1,044 houses on the register.
For Inspector's report see pages 245 to 248.
Legal proceedings were instituted in three instances, see page 184.
Suggested further Legislation with respect of Furnished
Rooms—Proposed License.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee:—
London County Council,
County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W.
18th June, 1909.
Sir,
The Council has under consideration the question of the
necessity for the exercise of increased control over a certain type of
furnished room, the practice of letting such rooms for short periods,
at a rate not exceeding 10s. a week, having recently become more
general in various parts of the County of London. This class of
room appears to be occupied by persons who are, if anything, of a
more degraded character than those frequenting common lodging
houses ; the rent is paid daily and the appointments of the rooms
are mostly of a very scanty and dilapidated nature, the beds being,
in many instances, verminous. The ease with which such rooms
can be hired is, moreover, a great incentive to immorality.
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