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The section came into operation on the 1st January, 1908, and a communication
was received from the London County Council, asking whether th
Act has proved beneficial to the occupants of the houses to which it applies i
this Borough.
As, however, no notices have, as yet, been served by this Authority under
the section in question, the London County Council have been informed that
no particulars of its working can be given them.
Your Council resolved on the '29th July, 1908, that no action be taken
in the matter.
Cooking accommodation to tenement-houses.—Section 7, Part II. Sanitary
Provisions of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, empowers
the Sanitary Authority to require sufficient and suitable accommodation for the
cooking of food to be provided for each family occupying a tenement-house
newly used or occupied as such after the passing of the Act, a tenement-house
meaning a house occupied by persons of the working class, and wholly or
partially let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family.
(c) Underground Dwellings.—At the end of the year there were on the
Register 591 underground rooms which had been illegally occupied as dwellings,
and had been ordered to be closed, and of which 211 inspections had been made,
and 23 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 House.—There are 19 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 Boat Dwellings.— During the year, 79 visits of inspection were
paid to the 31 wharves on the Regent's Canal.
(f) Working Class Flats.—A list of the principal of these and the accommodation
provided will be found in the Appendix to this Report.
THE AIRING, THROUGH-BLOW OR THROUGH-VENTILATION,
OF WORKING-CLASS FLATS.
In connection with the application to the London County Council for a
certificate under Section 7 of the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act,
1905, that the requirements thereof have been complied with in the construction
of the buildings at Flaxman Terrace, the District Surveyor raised
points, arising out of which the Medical Officer of Health presented the
following report to the Public Health Committee on the 2nd December, 1908:—
" I beg to call the attention of your Committee to certain of the requirements
of the District Surveyors and of the Building Acts Department of the