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28. Owing to the War Office determining to build married
quarters for soldiers, 34 houses in Artillery Place, and the
whole of Rush Grove, Ann Street, Mason Street, and Catherine
Square, comprising altogether about 85 houses have been
demolished. As these houses comprised some very insanitary
property, their removal is salutary, but it is to be regretted that
no accommodation was provided for the displaced tenants.
29. The Council's 25 new houses at North Woolwich were
completed, and are now all occupied with one exception.
Houses registered under the Bye-laws.
30. 132 Houses were on the register at the commencement
of the year, (compared with 88 and 103 in the two preceding
years). 42 were recommended for registration, of which 28
(22 in Woolwich, and 6 in Plumstead) were placed on the
register; 7 were removed, and 20 were demolished, leaving 133
registered at the close of the year (100 in Woolwich and 33 in
Plumstead).
The 20 demolished houses were in the Artillery Place area
referred to above.
31. These houses were all inspected either quarterly or half
yearly. 132 notices were served to remedy sanitary defects.
Only one prosecution was undertaken, for refusal to fill up the
form for a registered house, and this was dismissed on the
technical ground that the owner was not the landlord under
the bye-laws. 17 cases of overcrowding were found and
remedied.
32. With a view of testing the necessity for registering and
specially regulating houses of a certain class, I made an
inspection of 51 houses which had been recommended for