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The condition in which many yards are kept call for these remarks, particularly
since, as stated in previous Annual Reports, experiments and experiences
have shown that pollution of the surface soil is a most fertile source of disease.
§ 3.—DWELLINGS.
House-to-house Inspections.—The number of streets, or parts of streets,
inspected from house-to-house during the year, was 4; consisting of 112 houses,
all occupied, containing 428 rooms, 425 occupied, and 3 unoccupied; let to 230
families, consisting of 543 adults, and 280 children under 10 years of age. Upon
these houses 35 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 iu 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
those where the w.c, scullery, or washhouse, is not situated within the structurally
severed dwelling, but although 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 21 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 293 at the end of the year.
Registered Common Lodging Houses.—The number of these houses in St.
Pancras is 25, as set out in the List in the Appendix, and they are supervised and
controlled by the London County Council.
Canul Boats.—Sixty-one canal boats used as dwellings, and moored in this
District, were inspected during the year and found satisfactory.
INSANITARY AREAS.
Churchway Area.—Under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890, in the bands of the London County Council the Scheme for this Area is in
progress of execution. The roadway to be formed by Churchway uniting
Drummond Crescent and Grafton Place will convert several smaller culs-de-sac
into one larger cul-de-sac, every road entering into which will return into the