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By-laws as to houses let in lodgings or to members of more than one family.
The amendment of these By-laws is still under consideration.
ACCOMMODATION IN TENEMENT HOUSES.
The last three General Powers Acts of the London County Council have
regulated the accommodation in Tenement Houses for (a) the supply of water,
(b) the cooking of food, and (c) the storage of food.
MEANING OF "TENEMENT HOUSE."
"Tenement House" means any house occupied by any person of the working
class which is wholly or partially let in lodgings, or which is occupied by
members of more than one family; and "working class" has the same
meaning as in the Schedule to the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1903
(L.C.C. G.P.A., 1907, Part xii. (2), Section 3.—Interpretation of Terms.)
The expression "working class" includes mechanics, artisans, labourers, and
others working for wages; hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for
wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others,
except members of their own family, and persons other than domestic servants
whose income in any case does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week,
and the families of any such persons who may be residing with them.
(Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1903, Schedule (12) (e).)
(a) LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1907.
Section 78.—As to Supply of Water in Tenement Houses.
78. —For the purposes of section 48 (Provisions as to House 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 efficient 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 each family occupying such
house are situate a sufficient provision for the supply of water for domestic
purposes:
Provided that with respect to any building existing and in use as a tenement
house at the passing of this Act this section shall not (A) come into operation
until the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and eight; or (b)
apply where the only storey or storeys on which a proper and sufficient supply
of water is not provided is or are a storey or storeys (1) constructed at a height
exceeding that to which the Metropolitan Water Board may for the time being
be required to furnish a supply of water for domestic purposes, and (2) to which
a supply of water for such purposes is not at the passing of this Act being
furnished by the said Board by agreement:
Provided also that this section shall not apply to any tenement house in
respect of which it can be shown that any such provision for the supply of
water as aforesaid is not reasonably necessary.