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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 343 smoke shafts on the Register ; 600 observations of these were
taken, and 110 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 132 on the Registers, and of these 163 inspections and
18 re-inspections were made. [See also under the head of Nuisance § (9.)
§ 3.-DWELLINGS.
(a) House-to-House Inquiries and Inspection.—(i) For the purpose of
ascertaining the mode of sub-letting 301 inquiries and 390 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 are made were quoted in the Annual Report for 1904.
(b) Tenement Houses.—During the year 91 inspections and 21 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 2358 houses were
upon the Register. Of these houses 2424 periodical half-yearly inspections
were made, and 5396 re-inspections after the service of notices ; also of the
207 dwellings entered in the Register of Inscribed Dwellings, 84 inspections
were made, and 436 re-inspections after the service of notices.
The following is a record relating to registered tenement houses:—
On Register in 1911 2353
Registered during 1912 11
Total 2364
Ceased to be registered houses in 1912 6
On Register at end of 1912 2358