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DWELLINGS.
House-to-house Inspections.—The number of streets, or parts of streets,
inspected from house to house during the year, was 11; consisting of 84 houses,
all occupied, containing 623 rooms, 619 occupied, and 4 unoccupied; let to 273
families, consisting of 681 adults, and 391 children under 10 years of age. Upon
these houses 50 notices were served.
Houses occupied in separate dwellings.—These consist of houses (1) so constructed,
or (2) adapted as to be occupied in dwellings that may be (A) selfcontained,
or (B) not self-contained.
(A.) Houses occupied in separate and self-contained dwellings.—A list of houses
let in separate and self-contained dwellings is appended to this Report. Selfcontained
implies a structural severance of one dwelling from another in addition
to the structural severance of one room from another. Self-contained dwellings
may be (a) completely self-contained, or (b) partly self-contained, the latter embracing
these where the w.c., or the w.c. and washhouse, is not situated within the
structurally severed dwelling, but altheugh situated elsewhere in the house is
reserved for the exclusive use of the dwelling and not used in common by two or
more families.
(B.) Houses occupied in separate but not self-contained dwellings.—These
embrace (1) new houses constructed (a) so that the w.c.'s, washhouses, balconies, &c.,
any one or more of these are used in common, forming a partly common
dwelling house, and in some cases (b) so that every room opens separately and
directly on to a staircase or corridor, as in an ordinary type of old house, forming
a wholly common dwelling house, and (2) old houses originally constructed for occupation
by one family, and made down to let out in separate dwellings to more than
one family, and formed into a wholly common dwelling house.
Underground dwellings.—During the year, in ten cases underground rooms let
separately from the rest of the house were discontinued as dwellings.
Registered houses.—The number of houses let in separate dwellings or lodgings
to members of more than one family was 135 at the end of th6 year.
Registered Common Lodging Houses.—The number of these houses in St.
Pancras is 26, as set out in the List in the Appendix, and they are supervised and
controlled by the London County Council.
Canal Boats.—Thirty-six canal boats used as dwellings, and moored in this
District, were inspected during the year and found satisfactory.
Stable Dwellings.—The attention of the Health Committee has been called to
the fact that when Mews are in private hands, and the roadway and footway (if
any) are maintained by the Owner, it is possible in redraining stables, with
dwellings over, and water-closets and gullies under the dwelling, to place a
disconnecting chamber outside the building, and also the disconnecting gully, a
methed of construction much to be desired. But when the roadway and footway
(if any) of the Mews are taken over by the Vestry and maintained, it is then
forbidden to put the gulleys, disconnecting chambers, dust receptacles, &c., outside