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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:—
District.
Number of
Houses on
.Register.
Number of
Lodgers.
Number of
Tenements.
Average Number
of Persons
per Tenement.
Cleansing
Notices
Served.
West
72
496
196
2.5
93
Middle
3
24
15
1.6
3
East
49
246
128
1.9
28
Total
.... 124
766
339
2.2
124
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
the Bye-laws. This necessitated the service of 124 notices during 1925.
In addition to the foregoing, there are eleven blocks of Dwellings let out in tenements,
but not placed on the Register for the reason that each holding is "self-contained," it having
been decided in a Court of Law that in these circumstances they are not subject to the Byelaws
for houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family:—
No. of Tenements.
No. of
Name and situation of Artisans' Block Dwellings. One Two Three Four Five Inhabi-
Room. Room Rooms. Rooms. Room .tants.
or more. |
WEST DISTRICT.
Albion Buildings, No. 21, Bartholomew ... 9 .... .... ... 21
Albion Buildings, No. 22, Bartholomew Close ... 10 ... ... .... 16
Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Clos 14 3 .... ... ... 30
Dean Street Blocks, Fetter Lane—
Block A 2 7 ... ... ... 19
„ B 3 2 .... 1 ... 12
„ C 4 2 .... 1 ... 18
„ D 6 3 17
„ E 8 2 16
„ F 4 4 ... ... ... 15
St. Ann's Chambers, Ludgate Hill 4 12 ... 1 .... 30
Bloomfield House, Snow Hill ... 19 ... .... 45
Total (Six " Blocks ") 45 72 ... 3 .... 239
MIDDLE DISTRICT
Bridgewater House, Fann Street ... 12 .... ... .... 17
City Buildings, Moor Lane ... 20 12 ... .... 81
Total (Two *' Blocks ") ... 32 ... 12 ... 98
EAST DISTRICT
Harrow Alley and Stoney Lane—
North Block 48 8 217
South „ 5 22 13 178
Prince's „ 5 50 .... .... .... 167
Queen's „ 5 40 5 .... .... 160
King's „ 8 16 16 158
Barker's Buildings, Catherine Wheel Alley, Bishopsgate 11 5 2 2 .... 42
Total (Two " Blocks ") 34 181 44 2 .... 923
These ten blocks contain 425 tenements, and are inhabited by 1,260 persons—an average
of 2.9 persons to each tenement.