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the matters reported were set right without recourse to legal
proceedings. The Inspectors' visits were continued until
this was done. This work has been continued year by year with good results.
The following figures show generally the
position on the first inspection in 1885-6.
Division.
Number of
houses on
the
Registers.
Unoccupied,
or
not used
as dwellings.
Occupied.
One
family.
Two
families.
Three
families.
Blackheath and Lewisham
3793
347
2479
848
119
Sydenham and Forest Hill
3859
461
2407
919
72
Penge
1790
347
925
439
79
9442
1155*
5811
2206
270
The following are the returns in respect of the Parish of
Lewisham under the inspections in 1889.
The inspections were commenced in April last, and were
completed in October and November.
Division.
Number of
occupied
houses
visited.
Number
occupied
by one
family.
Number
occupied
by two
families.
Number
occupied
by three
families.
Defects
discovered
and
remedied.
Blackheath and
Lewisham
3647
2566
918
163
521
Sydenham and
Forest Hill
3733
2838
861
34
721
7380
5404
1779
197
1242
The figures as to Penge were not fully reported, but the
houses on the registers were regularly visited by the Inspector,
and all defects discovered were reported and remedied.
These Regulations have been of considerable value in
improving the condition of the dwellings of some of the
poorer classes in the District. The Regulations, however,
appear more directly to apply to a class of tenement property
which exists to a greater extent in some of the more densely
populated districts of the Metropolis than in the Lewisham