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Remarks:
During the year the Inspector was engaged on the overcrowding
survey for 19 days and paid 250 visits in connection with abatement of
overcrowding.
(b) Common Lodging Houses.
The following 5 Common Lodging Houses were licensed to 30th
June,1937.
(1) 65, Bow Lane—Sidney Moore (40 men).
(2) 196, Bow Road—Mrs. Elizabeth Betts (50 men—reduced later
to 34 men).
(3) East London Hostel, Garford Street (Salvation Army)—
Evangeline Booth (294 men).
(4) 378. Old Ford Road—Mrs. Elizabeth Hooper (18 men).
(5) 38, Pennyfields—Thomas Alfred Felton (46 men).
171 inspections of Common Lodging Houses, including 24 night
inspections, were made in 1936.
Homeless Persons.
In connection with a census of homeless persons which it had been
the practice of the London County Council to take for a number of years,
the Council co-operated by furnishing information as to the number of
beds occupied and vacant at Common Lodging Houses in the Borough on
the night of 21st February. The total of licensed beds was 454 and beds
occupied 367. The number of men known to be in receipt of Public
Assistance was 24, and 3 beds were paid for by charitable organisations.