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the streets and houses has then decided what houses should be registered, and
po recommended the Public Health Committee, and your Council has registered
them accordingly. The rooms have then been enumerated and measured, and
other details required for registration have been obtained in each house, and
the necessary entries made in the Register. The Registered Tenement
Houses have* then been primarily inspected for sanitary purposes, ani any
necessary notices under the By-laws have been served and the requisite work
has been done. Six months later the half-yearly periodical inspection is
made.
During the year 409 house-to-house inquiries were made as to the occupation
of houses, and 832 houses were measured and entered in the Register. At
the end of the year there were 1006 Registered Tenement Houses, at all of
which inspections were made, and 1673 re-inspections after the service of
notices.
Underground Dwellings.—Those closed number 36 in the Register, and 26 of
these were visited during the year. Since then a large number of underground
dwellings have been inspected and full details recorded of their structural
conditions; these will in due course be dealt with.
Registered Common Lodging Houses.—These houses are set out in List II. in
the Appendix and are supervised by the County Council.
Canal Boat Dwellings.—There are 31 wharves on the Register, and to these
424 visits were made to inspect canal boats.
HOUSING OP THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
PART I.
Area No. 1, Somers Town.
1 (a)—Churchway Scheme.—In continuation of the previous Annual Report
upon this subject, the London County Couucil have erected one block of
dwellings upon the west side of Churchway, upon the site of VVellesley
Street; the road a ay of Churchway has been widened and relaid to a proper
gradient as far as the rear of the premises Nos. 146 to 150 (even numbers),
Euston Road, and a new sewer constructed beneath the roadway ; on the east
side of Churchway two other blocks of dwellings are in course of erection
and nearing completion.
Your Borough Council is in negotiation for the purpose of acquiring the
houses Nos. 146 to 150 (even), Euston Road, the freehold having been
f already acquired, for the purpose of opening the new thoroughfare into
Euston Road.
The effect of carrying out this scheme will soon be apparent in the vast
improvement made in the heart of Somers Town.