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are known as the Shepherds Farm hutments, and are situated in or adjoin the
following roads :—
Ashwood Road, Barleycorn Street, Bilberry Road, Elderberry Road,
Elmbrook Street, Marlfield Road, Rochester Way, Well Hall Road.
At the end of the year other areas were being systematically inspected and will
be the subject of reports in due course.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts.—There
were only two applications for a certificate under these Acts during the year, but
after consideration the Council were unable to grant the applications.
Tents and Vans.—Bye-laws regulating the use of these were made by the
Council in 1903. All tents and vans (which are few in number) were inspected
regularly and steps were taken to ensure that the bye-laws were being observed.
The total number of inspections made was 114.
Houses Let in Lodgings.—No register is now kept of houses let in lodgings
but as the records of this Department in respect of individual houses are kept on
cards, such houses are kept prominently before the district sanitary inspectors by
means of "signals" on the cards which serve as reminders to the inspectors that they
are dealing with houses that would formerly have been registered. During the year
587 inspections of such houses were made.
New Houses.—The following Table, No, 24, shows the number of certificates
of a proper and sufficient supply of water for new houses granted by the Public
Health Committee at each of their meetings. Of these, 262 were in respect of houses
built by the Council.