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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, Enston 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 Animal Report for 1902 the enactments dealing with smoke
were set out in full.
There were 234 smoke shafts on the Register; 762 observations of these were
taken, and 25 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 arc 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 of 30th
January, 1907.)
Effluvia.—Of various businesses and places producing effluvia or offen-ive
emanations there are 134 on the Registers, and of these 156 inspections and
27 re-inspections were made. (See also under the head of Nuisances § 9.1
§ 3.—DWELLINGS.
(a) House-to-House Inquiries and Inspections.—(i.) For the purpose of
ascertaining the mode of sub-letting, 1787 inquiries and 156 re-visits were
made as to the occupation of houses in teneirented streets, (ii.) When the mode
of sub-letting appears to be sucli 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.
(b) Tenement Houses.—During the year, 74 inspections and 0 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 2316 houses were
upon the Register. Of these houses, 2429 periodical half-yearly inspections
were made, and 5315 re-inspections after the service of notices. Also of the
166 dwellings entered in the Register of Inscribed dwellings 93 inspections
were made, and 89 re-inspections after the service of notices.
The following is a record relating to registered tenement houses: —
On Register at end of 1906 2309
Registered during 1907 10
Total 2319
Ceased to be registered housss in 1907 3
On Register at end of 1907 2316