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Annual Cleansing.—The houses inspected for this purpose numbered 1,007 in 1924, and 951 in
1925. The practice followed in previous years of inspecting certain streets annually and others every
two years was continued, it being impossible for the two Inspectors engaged on this work to carry
out a complete inspection each year of all the houses on the Register.
Common Lodging Houses.—There are 5 houses in Kilburn Lane accommodating 128 men and
37 women. These houses are licensed by the London County Council, whose officers carry out routine
inspection. Each year, however, at the time of application for licences, an inspection is made by
the Sanitary Inspector of the district.
Among the occupants of these houses one case of pneumonia and 10 deaths from various causes
occurred in 1924, and 8 deaths in 1925.

Housing on London County Council Estates.
The London County Council in November, 1924, initiated a scheme whereby "15 per 1,000
houses available for letting during the year " were apportioned amongst residents of the borough
recommended by the Medical Officer of Health for preferential treatment on account of overcrowding
or other special hardship.
Some four to five hundred persons applied for the assistance of the Council in the course of 1925
in obtaining better housing accommodation, but as is to be expected the great majority required
" rooms " in the borough, the breadwinner's work being in the vicinity.

* Few houses were available on these estates, hence the high proportion on "waiting" list,
† Nothing available on Old Oak Common Estate.
The above figures should not be taken as the total for the Borough, it being known that some families obtained
accommodation on the various Estates by direct application to the County Council.