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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. Eightyseven
visits were made to these premises in 1924.
Registered Tenement Houses.
At the end of 1924 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 107 and
112.
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 719 observations of smoke shafts were made. There were no
prosecutions.
Constructional Drain Work.
The sanitary inspectors have the duty of supervising all work upon drains, including
construction, reconstruction and repairs. During the year the following work has been done
under this heading :—
First Consequent
inspections. re-inspections.
Drainage work done under notice 348 3884
Voluntary drainage work 881 3298
Drains of new buildings 171 2364
1400 9546
Drainage Register.—The following is an analysis of the Drainage Register during
1924:—
Plans deposited—Old Buildings under Notice 106
„ „ Old Buildings, Voluntary 181
„ „ New Buildings and Additions 57
344
Applications without Plans 177
Total number of Applications and Plans 521