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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 334 smoke shafts on the Register ; 689 observations of these were
taken, and 164 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 of 30th
January, 1907.)
Effluvia.—of various businesses and places producing effluvia or offensive
emanations there are 136 on the Registers, and of these 288 inspections and
15 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 188 inquiries and 61 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 inquiry 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 arc made were quoted in the Annual Report for 1904.
(b) Tenement Houses.—During the year 47 inspections and 61 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 2280 houses
were upon the Register. Of these houses 2398 periodical half-yearly inspections
were made, and 5565 re-inspections after the service of notices; also of
the 339 dwellings entered in the Register of Inscribed Dwellings 250 inspections
were made, and 354 re-inspections after the service of notices.