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EAST DISTRICT—
Inspector W. H. Ralph.
Month.
Premises
inspected.
Orders
issued.
Notices
served.
Improvements
effected.
January 193 4 16 27
February 190 4 10 19
March 97 2 3 10
April 354 3 78 20
May 337 19 15 25
June 225 6 12 89
July 169 9 15 20
August 249 3 7 17
September 274 5 18 23
October 219 7 2 21
November 240 4 10 10
December 416 5 17 35
Totals 2,963 71 203 316
THE FOREGOING ARE SUMMARISED AS UNDER
District.
Number of
inspections
made.
Orders
issued.
Notices
served.
Improvements
effected.
West 2,934 102 225 362
Middle 2,910 120 213 390
East 2,963 71 203 316
Totals 8,807 293 641 1,068
REGISTERED LODGING HOUSES.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Sec. 94.
The Corporation, as the Sanitary Authority in the City, are required, under the
provisions of Sec. 94 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to make and enforce
Bye-laws applying to houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than
one family for the following purposes:—
For regulating the number of persons and separation of the sexes.
For the registration and inspection of such houses.
For enforcing drainage and promoting cleanliness and ventilation.
For the cleansing and limewashing of the premises at stated times.
For the taking of precautions in any case of infectious disease.
The Bye-laws now in force in the City for this class of property were made by
the Court of Common Council on 24th November, 1904, and confirmed by the Local
Government Board on the 20th January, 1905.
Unfurnished lodgings, when the rent is not less than 10s. a week, and furnished
lodgings when the rent is not less than 12s. 6d. a week, are exempt from the operations
of the Bye-laws.
Particulars relating to the registered Lodging-houses in the City now on the
Register are given in the accompanying table:—
REGISTERED LODGING-HOUSES.
District.
Number of
Houses on
Register.
Number of
Lodgers.
Number of
Tenements.
Average Number
of Persons
per Tenement.
Cleansing
Notices
Served.
West
74
525
211
2.4
78
Middle
3
25
16
1.5
3
East
55
285
143
2.0
72
Total
132
835
370
2.2
153
These houses are periodically inspected, and in April of each year the landlords
are called upon to carry out a thorough cleansing of them, in accordance with the
provisions of Bye-laws. This necessitated the service of 153 Notices during 1923.