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Alterations to the premises for the improvement of the day
rooms and administration at Nos. 23-25, Well Street were carried
out during the year and have resulted in reducing the accommodation
for lodgers from 200 to 174 and the licence as regards these
premises will be amended accordingly when its renewal is considered
by the Council.
At the annual census of homeless persons carried out during
the night of 15th/16th February, 1935, the following numbers of
lodgers were found at the three common lodging houses: —
1, High Street, Homerton 58 men.
23 and 25, Well Street 115 ”
50, Well Street 33 ”
The number of visits paid by the Sanitary Inspectors to the
common lodging houses during the year was 71.
London County Council (General Poivers) Act, 1922.
Verminous Premises.
Powers are granted by this Act to Local Authorities to cleanse,
disinfect or destroy any unwholesome articles in any house, or to
require the owner or occupier of any house that is in a verminous
condition to cleanse the premises.
For some years past it has been the practice of the School
Medical Authority to give notice to the Borough Council of school
children who have been required by notice to submit to treatment
at the Cleansing Station, and to ask that steps be taken to deal with
their homes under the above Act.