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Battersea M.B.C.
"A lodging house shall be exempt from the operation of these by-laws where
"the keeper resides on the premises and where in addition to such keeper and
" his family there are not more than three persons lodging in such house."
The above communication does not say that a limit of habitable accommodation
is an undesirable form of exemption, but simply that the particular manner
in which the limit of habitable accommodation proposed by the Borough
Council has been framed and worded, exempts certain houses which in the
opinion of the Local Government Board should not be exempted. There is no
difficulty in framing a limit or limits of habitable accommodation in such a
manner as to comply with the desire of the Local Government Board to include
all those houses in respect of which the Local Government Board is of opinion
that regulation is necessary. In due course such exemption clauses will be
submitted for the consideration of the Public Health Committee.
INSCRIBED DWELLINGS.
For the purpose of periodical inspection a List of Inscribed Dwellings is
kept. This List includes :—
1. Cottages of one, two, three, or more rooms occupied by one family and
which cannot be registered, e.g., Equity Buildings.
2. Duellings over Stables which require periodical inspection, but cannot be
registered, e.g., Wakefield Mews.
3. Houses in certain areas represented under the Housing of the Working
Classes Acts, some of which are registrable and some not, e.g., Chapel
Grove and Eastnor Place areas.
4. Tenemeut Houses let in separate duellings, but in which the dwellings are
not separately assessed, or, if separately assessed, in which the
dwellings do not differ in arrangement or construction from those in
an ordinary tenement house, and which, it may be contended, are not
registrable.
5. Working-class flats habitually overcrowded or kept in an insanitary
condition.
Water supply to tenement-houses.—Section 78 of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1907, with reference to the supply of water to tenement
houses, provides that for the purposes of section 48 (provision as to houses
without proper water supply) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, a
tenement house shall be deemed to be a house without a proper and sufficient
supply of water unless there shall be provided on the storey or one of the
storeys in which the rooms or lodgings in the separate occupation of the family
occupying such house are situate a sufficient provision for the supply of
water for domestic purposes.