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8. Strand No. 3, Little Chapel-street, Wardour-street, has been taken on
lease by the Board, and is occupied by one of the
sanitary inspectors', rooms being set apart for use as a
shelter. On the first floor is a sitting-room with an
adjoining lavatory. On the second floor are two bedrooms,
each containing two beds. The rooms have not as
yet been used.
9. Clerkenwell A three-storey six-roomed house has been provided. It has
one water-closet. The rooms are furnished with fireplaces,
chairs and crockery, and in one ground floor room there
are two beds for children to lie down on. The caretaker
lives next door. This accommodation has been in
existence three years, and has been used ten times.
Difficulty is experienced in inducing people to avail themselves
of it.
This accommodation is shared by Holborn, the Charterhouse,
Staple and Furnival's Inns.
10. Shoreditch No. 18, Branch-place, a house fronting the canal and with good
yard space at the rear. On the second floor is a furnished
room. The second floor back is not furnished. On the
first floor are a sitting-room and a bedroom, both
furnished. On the ground floor are the caretaker's-room
and a furnished bedroom. Beds and bedding, washing
utensils, crockery, knives, forks, &c., are provided.
Every room is disinfected after it is used. Since it was
opened forty-three persons have been accommodated in
the shelter, in some instances people have remained there
for two or three days. The place has mainly been made
use of in cases of small-pox.
11. St. George-in-the-East A two-storey four-roomed house has been provided. The
house has a back yard, in which is situated the watercloset.
Each room is furnished with a fireplace, chairs
and crockery. The gardener of an open space adjoining
is the only available attendant.
12. Limehouse A three-storey house, No. 82, High-street, Shadwell, has been
provided; there is a resident caretaker. The first and
second floor front rooms are furnished with couch, chairs
and washhand-stand ; crockery is provided. The caretaker
lives in the ground floor front room. The shelter
has hitherto only been used on two occasions, and there
is considerable difficulty in inducing people to avail themselves
of the accommodation.
13. Mile End Old Town A house, No. 47, Globe-road, has been furnished as a shelter.
There are three rooms; beds, bedding, crockery, &c., are
provided ; there is a resident caretaker. The shelter is
said to be used on an average about once a week.
14. St. Olave Three cottages (Nos. 2, 3 and 4, New Cottage-row) have been
acquired by the Board for use as a shelter. New Cottagerow
is a narrow court adjoining, and entered from Parishstreet.
It consists of four two-storey cottages; No. 1, is
occupied by the caretaker of the shelter, No. 2, is
furnished with beds, bedding, chairs and table ; cooking
utensils, &c., are provided. Nos. 3 and 4 have not yet
been furnished. Since the shelter was provided in
December, 1893, it has been used by fifteen families, and
it has proved specially useful in the case of persons
occupying rooms in blocks of tenement dwellings.
15. Battersea A waiting room at the Municipal-buildings, Lavender-hill, is
available for use as a shelter. It contains a fireplace, table
and chairs. There is water-closet accommodation in connection
with it. There is no bed, and no provision is
made for cooking meals. It is not intended that the
shelter shall be occupied at night time. No use has as
yet been made of it.
16. Wandsworth—
Putney One room has been provided at the vestry's new wharf on the
Putney-embankment. The room is now furnished as a
kitchen, and bed furniture has not yet been supplied.
The house is now occupied by the clerk of the wharf. It
has not yet been used as a shelter.
Clapham One room furnished as a kitchen has been provided in a lean-
to building at the vestry's stone-yard. No provision for
sleeping has been made.