[TO THE EDITOR OF Tag "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I shall make no
claim that all the University lodgings at Cambridge are everything that could be desired : with some streets very narrow and many houses in the centre of the town very closely packed together, the man who wants good airy rooms at a moderate rent must be willing to live at some little distance from his College. But the authorities are not so careless about the sanitary condition of the lodging- houses as readers of recent letters in the Spectator might be led to suppose. Within recent years the sanitary arrange- ments of these houses have been greatly improved, partly as the result of special Reports by a sanitary engineer employed by the Lodging-Houses Syndicate, partly in consequence of a house-to-house inspection of drains, &c., carried out by the inspectors of the Borough Council under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health. There is, however, room for further improvements, and the University and College authorities will have their hands strengthened if parents are exacting in their requirements in these matters.—I am, Sir, &c.,
C. A. E. POLLOCK,
Cambridge. Secretary Lodging-Houses Syndicate.
P.S.—A word on a minor point. Mr. Lupton says :—" I had, however, to pay £12 rent for these rooms to the College according to regulation, because my son had failed to give notice of removal before the half-term." In the " Compendium of University Regulations," a copy of which is given by his tutor to every freshman, it is stated:--" It is sometimes supposed that if a student does not, before the middle of the Term, give notice of his intention to quit at the end of the Term, he is liable to pay for the following Term ; he is subject to no such liability."
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