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309
Class of
Lodging.
Rented at — per week.
1/6
2/-
2/6
3/-
3/6
4/-
4/6
5/-
5/6
6/-
6/6
7/-
/6
Unfurnished :
One room
7
57
187
106
106
160
*23
Two rooms
†13
38
256
201
150
83
14
Three or more
rooms
†37
51
44
40
Furnished:
One room (all)
1
3
18
7
4
* Registration not enforced at rents of 5/- and upwards, hence no information
of higher rentals.
† Apparently none let cheaper than this.
From the foregoing statement lodgings rented
at over 7/6 per week were intentionally excluded, as
that was the limit commonly prescribed by the Byelaws
of other Metropolitan Districts. In the houses on
the Register at the date mentioned there were the
following tenements (three or more rooms) let at 8/and
upwards:—
8/- 8/6 9/- 9/6 10/- 10/6 13/- 15/13
5 5 2 6 6 4 2
These came on the Register under the old Byelaw—limit
5/- per room. It is very doubtful if the
Act ever intended such class of lodgings to be registered,
although the wording of Section 94, if strictly
interpreted, includes them, and if the new Bye-law
receive the approval of the Local Government
Board, these lodgings will go off the Register.
From a Return prepared by the Relieving
Officers, it appears that of 389 applications for relief
during one quarter of last year, 152 were made by