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lodgings under circumstances and conditions which render it desirable,
in the interest of public health, that they should be registered and
inspected at frequent intervals.
By the end of the year 1911, 217 premises were on the Register.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT, 1909
During the year 1911 most of the least satisfactory dwellings
within the Borough were inspected, reported upon to the Public Health
and Housing Committee, and the facts duly entered in the special
Register kept. The inspections covered Hornsey Place, Philp Street
and Thomas Place (now Hewling Street), the Nevill Road Tenements,
Rochester Place, Mason's Court, Mason's Place, White Hart Court,
and Chapel Place. As the result of representations made to the Committee
some improvements in the conditions of occupancy of the basement
rooms of the Nevill Road Tenements were required, and radical
improvements were demanded in Rochester Place; but no action
beyond the abatement of the nuisances discovered was demanded in
respect to the other dwellings inspected under this Act.
During the year, under the threat of a Closing Order, some very
material improvements were effected in the five old houses of
Rochester Place. Rochester Place, High Street, is approached by
a covered passage-way only 3 ft. 10 in. wide, and of the five dwellings
one contains two small rooms and a scullery; the other four containing
three small rooms and a scullery. The premises had got into a very
dilapidated condition; two possessed no backyard and had no back
windows to the house, and one had only a very small yard 15 ft. by 5 ft.
Two of the dwellings were wooden structures, and these were damp;
no water supply was laid on to the house, the water being obtained
from a standpipe in the courtyard. The roofs on much of this property
were defective and the guttering also. One wooden dustbin
was provided in the courtyard for the use of the five houses. This
property was very considerably improved by the removal of the
wooden dwelling, No. 3, which was the least satisfactory of the dwellings.
The result of this has been to let in light and air at the sides
of Nos. 2 and 4. In addition all the roofs have been thoroughly