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(c) Underground Dwellings.—At the end of the year there were on the Register
538 underground rooms which had been illegally occupied as dwellings, and
had been ordered to be closed, and of which 134 inspections had been made, and
18 re-inspections after notices served. Time is allowed to the occupants of
these rooms to find rooms elsewhere, and during the time allowed the illegally
occupied rooms are kept under observation, and the number vacated or otherwise
occupied ascertained and reported. The houses in which these dwellings are
found are added to the register of registered tenement houses.
(d) Common Lodging Houses.—There are 25 Registered Common Lodging
Houses in St. Pancras, and these are supervised by the London County
Council, including the one Salvation Army Shelter in South St. Pancras.
Rowton Houses are not so registered ; of these there are in St Pancras one at
the southern end of King's Cross Road in South St. Pancras, and another at
the northern end of Arlington Road in West St. Pancras.
(e) Canal Bo".t Dwellings.—During the year 93 visits of inspection were
paid to the 31 wharves on the Regent's Canal.
(f) Working-Clans Flats. —A list of the principal of these and the accommodation
provided will be found in the Appendix to this Report.
Ton bridge Street, &c., Displacement. — In 1903 the East End Dwellings
Company demolished Nos. 1 to 23 (odd, inclusive) Tollbridge Street, Euston
Road ; 1 and 2, Brunswick Place ; 108, 110, and 112, Cromer Street; 1 to 31
(consecutive and inclusive), Peace Cottages (except 17 and 18, which had been
demolished in some former year) ; and 7 to 23 (consecutive and inclusive),
Speedy Place, comprising 63 separate houses, and displacing about 327 persons.
On the site, the East End Dwellings Company erccted Ton bridge House, which
was opened in 1904, and houses 245 persons.
Fitzroy Court, &c., Displacement.—Recently a site on the west side of
Tottenham Court Road, bounded by Warren Street. Whitfield Place, and
Fitzroy Court, has been cleared, consisting of some 15 houses and shops, and
two blocks of artizans dwellings, containing some 204 rooms and displacing
about 500 persons. No proposition appears yet to have been made to provide
housing accommodation to re-house these displaced persons.
Revenue Act, 1903. —In the " Daily Telegraph" of November 8th, 1906, it
was reported from St. Petersburg that at a meeting of the Senate to discuss the
elections to the Duma and the Council of the Empire, the following definition
•was adopted :—" By the term ' own dwelling,' the value of which must entitle
the occupier to take part in municipal electoral meetings, is to be understood a
dwelling occupied by a single household, with independent threshold and
hearth, and having no interior communication with other dwellings." This
definition is an interesting example in comparative social legislation.
(g).—HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS.
Part I.
Area No. 1. Somers Town.
1 (a).— Church way Scheme —In continuation of the previous Annual Reports
on the subject of housing, this scheme was completed by the London County
Council; the other schemes are moving as described here following.