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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.
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; 840 observations of these were
taken, and 13 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, and often twice as long.
The Inspectors are now instructed to limit their observation of a chimney to
half-an-hour, and only to prolong it beyond this period so long as a nuisance is
actually being committed. (See Minutes of Public Health Committee ot 30th
january, 1907.)
Effluvia.—Of various businesses or places producing effluvia or offensive
emanations there are 95 on the Registers, and of these 117 inspections and
25 re-inspections were made. (See also under the head of Nuisances § 9.)
§ 3—DWELLINGS.
(a) House-to-House Inquiries and Inspections.— (i) For the purpose of ascertaining
the mode of sub-letting, 272 inquiries and 181 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 1901.
(b) Tenement Houses..—During the year, 235 inspections and 33 re-inspections
were made for the purpose of measuring tenement or lodging-houses which
it had been decided to register, and at the end of the year 2,296 houses were
upon the register. Of these houses, 2 369 periodical half-yearly inspections
were made, and 5,504 re-inspections after the service of notices. Also of the
192 dwellings entered in the register of Inscribed Dwellings 309 inspections
were made, and 305 re-insnections after the service of notices.