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Leighton Crescent is controlled, by a Committee of the adjoining residents,
and the Secretary is Mr. Blunton, of No. 6, Leighton Crescent, N.W.
The Crescent, Euston Street, is owned by the London and North Western
Railway Company.
The enclosed Gardens adjoining Regent's Park Terrace and Maitland Park
Villas, are owned by adjoining owners of land, and are maintained by them.
ATMOSPHERE.
The following paragraph from last year's report may again be quoted with
advantage :—
It is to be observed that in their effect upon the atmosphere and the population
the two classes of open spaces produce opposite results. The open spaces
planted with herbage, flowering plants, shrubs, and trees purify and cleanse the
atmosphere, and afford the means of recreating and recruiting the health of the
people surrounding them, and the only noises heard within them are the sounds
of children's voices. The open spaces devoted to railway purposes are bare of
vegetation and from them proceed the smoke of railway engines, the clanking
of shunting trucks, the rumbling of trains, the vibration of heavy moving
weights, the explosions of fog signals, shrill whistlings, and other disturbances
of matter immensely conducive to the activities of the nation, but not to the
health of the people immediately surrounding In addition they form large
enclosed areas inaccessible to the public, and obstructive to local traffic, transit,
and inter-communication. What contribution outside the Parliamentary Acts
of the Railway Companies does the nation make towards the health and wellbeing
of the local community subjected to these ills, for the nation's welfare ?
Smoke.—In the Annual Report for 1902 the enactments dealing with smoke
were set out in full.
There are 221 smoke shafts on the Register, 661 observations of these were
taken, and 78 re-inspections were made after notices served. These observations
or inspections and re-inspections occupy a considerable amount of time, as the
intervals between stoking are of considerable duration—at least twenty
minutes.
Effluvia.—Of various businesses or places producing effluvia or offensive
emanations there are 100 on the Registers, and of these 313 inspections and
77 re-inspections were made. (See also under the head of Nuisances § 9.)
§ 3 DWELLINGS.
House-to-Souse Inquiries and Inspections.—(i.) For the purpose of ascertaining
the mode of sub-letting, 306 inquiries and 87 re-visits were made as to the
occupation of houses in tenemented streets. (ii.) When the mode of sub-letting
appears to be such as to necessitate periodical supervision of the sanitary condition
of a house a complete enquiry is made into the mode of occupation of
each room of the house, (iii.) When it has been decided to register a tenement
house each room is measured as to its dimensions and capacity and recorded in
the Register. The forms in which the reports as to these matters are made,
were quoted in the Annual Report for 1904.