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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1910.
Common Lodginq-Houses.
The administration of the Common Lodging Houses Acts devolved upon the Council in 1894.
By the passing of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, the Council obtained powers
to license common lodging-houses annually. New by-laws for the regulation of common lodginghouses
came into force on the 1st October, 1903.

It will be observed that since 1894 the number of common lodging-houses has steadily diminished.
This reduction, however, is more apparent than real, inasmuch as in earlier years every house was
separately counted, whereas now adjoining houses in the same occupation are counted as one house
and included under one licence. It will be seen, moreover, that although the number of houses has
been reduced the authorised number of lodgers varies but little, thus showing that there is a tendency
for the smaller houses to be replaced by a smaller number of larger houses.
The number of cases of notifiable infectious disease reported in common lodging-houses was as
follows:— Erysipelas, 6; scarlet fever, 1; diphtheria, 2; enteric fever, 3; smallpox, 1—total, 13.

(a) ½ = 1 child.