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PREMISES AND OCCUPATIONS CONTROLLED BY BYE-LAWS AND
REGULATIONS.
Offensive Trade.—There is only one licensed place for such trades in St. Pancras,
viz., a tallow-melter's in Tudor Place. Forty-six visits were made to these premises in 1925.
Registered Tenement Houses.
At the end of 1925 there were 2,365 such houses on the Register. Statistics as to the
inspection of these and other houses will be found in Tables Nos. 7 and 13, on pages 113 and
119.
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 280 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 499 4946
Voluntary drainage work 846 3082
Drains of new buildings 112 2286
1457 10314
Drainage Register.—The following is an analysis of the Drainage Register during
1925:—
Plans deposited—Old Buildings under Notice
180
,, „ Old Buildings, Voluntary
184
,, „ New Buildings and Additions
41
405
Applications without Plans
257
Total number of Applications and Plans
662