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Sanitary Adminstration.
more than one family, but it has been necessary to serve only one
notice for overcrowding in these localities. The population of
Hampton Square works out a little over six per house. Of these
houses fifteen are 5-roomed ones. The owner of No. 40 to 54,
Hampton Square is renovating the houses throughout, including
kitchen ranges in place of the old open fireplaces—a great boon
to the tenants. In West Road the number of inhabitants averaged
8.5 per flat of 4 rooms and scullery, but there is ample space for
this number. A great improvement has been effected by the yards
having been tar paved.
Thirty-four notices were served during the year on the owners
of St. Ann's Passage, Barnes. The street comprises twenty
cottages, all occupied by persons of the poorer class. This is one
of the streets the district could well do without, as it is in a
cramped situation between Railway Side and Railway Street, and 1
hope that in the near future it may cease to exist.
Stanton Road also needs careful attention, as there has always
been a tendency to overcrowding and neglect. A general and
systematic inspection is made of about fifty streets in the
district.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS.
The inspection of factories is practically done by H.M. Inspectors,
and it is their duty to give the local authority notice of any
matter which is remediable, but it is also a rule of Sanitary
Inspectors to inspect them under the Factory and Workshops Acts,
and the Public Health Acts. No notices have been received this
year from H.M. Inspector. There are about a dozen factories in
the district.
The Workshops, with the exception of a few outworkers and
Hand Laundries are of an unimportant character.