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In addition to the above, 381 notices requiring the abatement
of breaches of regulations made by the Board as to
houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than
one family were also served. These notices received attention
in all except 2 cases, in which proceedings were taken
before police magistrates.
The Shelton Street Area.
Reference was made in the last Annual Report to the proposals
of the London County Council for dealing with this
area. The Bill for confirming the Provisional Order as
amended was duly passed into law in the last session of
Parliament, and since that date the work of widening Macklin
Street and Parker Street, and constructing the new street
between Parker Street and Shelton Street, has been carried
out, and the London County Council are now engaged in
erecting a model common lodging-house on the Parker Street
frontage. Several plots of land that are not required for the
purpose of the lodging-house are about to be offered for
sale by public auction for the purpose of constructing on
them artizans' dwellings.
With the rate of progress that is being made with the
lodging-house it is anticipated that this area will be shortly
again populated, and that this will reduce the pressure on