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For the purpose of periodical inspection a list of Inscribed Dwellings is
also 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.—Dwellings 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.—Tenement Houses let in separate dwellings 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, but which houses, it may be contended, are not registrable as a whole.
5.— Working Class Flats habitually overcrowded or kept in an insanitary
condition.
(c) Underground Dwellings. — At the end of the year there were on the
Register 427 underground rooms which had been illegally occupied as dwellings,
and had been ordered to be closed, and of which 136 inspections had been made
and 64 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-houses.—There are 8 registered Common Lodginghouses
in St. Pancras, and these are supervised by the London County Council.
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 67 visits of inspection were
paid to the 34 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 INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1903.

The Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, now provides also for the
exemption of common lodging-houses for the working classes from inhabited
house duty by Section 35.