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PREMISES AND OCCUPATIONS CONTROLLED BY BY-LAWS AND
REGULATIONS.
Offensive Trades.—There are two licensed premises for such trades in St. Pancras,
viz., a tripe-dresser's in Kentish Town Road, and a tallow-melter's in Tudor Place. Sixty-six
visits were made to these premises in 1923.
Registered Tenement Houses.
At the end of 1923 there were 2,36.5 such houses on the Register. Statistics as to the
inspection of these and other houses will be found in Tables Nos. 7 and 12, on pages 95 and
100.
Underground *Rooms.
During the period of stringency in housing accommodation which has followed the war,
a large number of underground rooms, the use of which for sleeping purposes had in former
years been effectually forbidden under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Housing,
Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, have again become occupied as sleeping places. Except in a
very few cases, it has not been found possible to secure the discontinuance of their use for this
purpose. The reason for this is that the occupants have no place to go to in the event of
their being ejected from the rooms in question.
There has been a similar difficulty in dealing with cases of overcrowding, the families
concerned being often unable to obtain more accommodation.
Smoke Prevention.
During the year 915 observations of smoke shafts were made. There were no
prosecutions.
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