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occupied ascertained and reported. The houses' in which these dwellings are
found are added to the register of registered tenement houses.
(d) Common Lodging-houses. — There are 19 registered Common Lodginghouses
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 59 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 he found in the Appendix to this Report.

(g.)—HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS
Part I.
Area No 1. —Somers Town.
1 (a).—Churchway Scheme.—In continuation of the previous Annual Reports
on the subject of housing, this scheme was completed by the London County
Council; the other schemes are moving as described here following.
1 (A).—Part of area west of Chulton Street and north of Drummond Street
line.— The houses in this area were dealt with individually under the Public
Health Act years ago.
1 (c).—Part of area east of Chalton Street.— In continuance of the history of
the Chapel Grove and Eastnor Place Schemes. The Schemes of 1898, amended
in 1901, relating to those two areas were embodied in one Order by the Local
Government Board, and a notice thereof published in the "London Gazette."
The Midland Railway Company having acquired the Land in 1898, petitioned
against the Order in December, 1905, as did also a leaseholder, and the Order
of the Local Government Board sanctioning and embodying the schemes became
"provisional." On the 17th February, 1906, the directors of the Midland
Railway Company, by letter, suggested that the Borough Council should