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drains, cleansing and painting and colour-washing of the
interior of all rooms and cubicles, repaving of yard, etc., were
satisfactorily executed.
An application for the premises to be registered was
received on 6th October, .1913, from the intending occupier,
when the Public Health Committee resolved that the house be
registered and that a Certificate of Registration be granted for
a period of 12 months, viz., 1st January to 31st December,
1914, and that the Certificate be renewed from time to time,
subject to a satisfactory report of the premises being received.
A similar certificate was granted for the premises, 42,
High Street, South Wimbledon. Inspections of these premises
have been made from time to time at irregular intervals, and I
am pleased to report that all provisions of the bye-laws were
rigidly observed.
No complaint was received during the year respecting
either Common Lodging House.
Van Dwellings.—At irregular intervals throughout the
year inspections were made of the vans occupied as dwellings;
there have also been special visits made as the result of complaints
received from time to time respecting the vans in
certain yards. There are in all 37 vans on 12 separate premises,
the most in one yard being seven. The internal measurements
of all these vans have been taken for the purpose of calculating
their cubic capacity.
With one or two exceptions these dwellings have been
found clean and well-kept, and the provisions of bye-laws
relating to Tents, Vans and Sheds complied with. In the few
instances mentioned, a verbal warning was sufficient to obtain
compliance. The complaints received referred principally to
noise, or were the outcome of a sentimental objection to plots
of land adjoining the dwelling-houses of the complainants
being so used, but not with respect to any breach of the byelaws.
The occupiers of the vans appear to be a very healthy set
of people, only one case of infectious disease (Scarlet Fever)
having occurred amongst them during- the whole of the year.
This case was not removed to the Isolation Hospital, consequently
it necessitated a daily visit of inspection for the purpose
of seeing that all precautions were being observed with a
view to preventing the spread of infection.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.—Twenty new applications
were received during the year from persons desirous of
being registered under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops
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