View report page

60
REGISTERED LODGING HOUSES.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Sec. 94 ;
and Housing Act, 1925, Sec. 6.
The Corporation, as the Sanitary Authority in the City, was required under the provisions
of Sec. 94 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and Section 6 of the Housing
Act, 1925, to make and enforce Bye-laws with respect to houses intended or used for occupation
by the working classes and 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 requiring adequate and accessible and, where necessary, separate
provision of closet accommodation, washing accommodation, and
accommodation for the storage, preparation and cooking of food.
For the keeping in repair and adequate lighting of any common staircase.
For the cleansing and redecorating of the premises, and for the paving
of the courts and courtyards.
For the provision of handrails for staircases.
For securing adequate lighting.

These houses are periodically inspected, and in April of each year the owners or tenants
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 38 notices during 1937.

These twelve blocks contain 449 tenements, and are inhabited by 1,019 persons—an
average of 2 -3 persons to each tenement.