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drawn up bringing these repairs to the notice of the owner and serving
this together with the notice under the Public Health Act.
This procedure separates the Public Health from the Housing items
and avoids putting on Public Health Notices things which cannot be
enforced under that Act and leaves open another course under Section 3,
1925, Housing Town Planning Act to be followed up if necessary.
IV. Unhealthy Areas.—For several years representations have
"been before the London County Council concerning Areas in Hatfield
Street, Park Street, Rockingham Street, and Draper Street.
During this year the Hatfield Street Area was re-represented and
an Enquiry held by the Ministry of Health.
The matter is still under consideration.
The other Areas mentioned above have not yet been dealt with.
V. Byk-laws concerning Houses let in Lodgings were made by the
Borough Council in 1911, and enforced until the period of the War,
when owing to the facts that the question of what constituted a tenement
house was governed by the rental paid, and that the all round increase
of rent took most of the houses off the Register, the Bye-laws, as existed
became obsolete. Pending the issue of the new Bye-laws in preparation
by the London County Council, the supervision of these houses has for
the last few years been restricted to the few obvious ones still on onr
list.
VI. No special work beyond that already mentioned has been
carried on, but the routine work has involved continuous assiduity to
cope with existing conditions.