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Common Lodging House & Boarding House Licence Cards

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Unique IDAS-0783Start date1st January 1933Start date qualifiercircaEnd date11th January 2006FormatCardDescriptionIn 1932, By-Law No. 40 - Common Lodging Houses, was proclaimed. This gave Council the power to control and regulate common lodging houses. This series contains the license cards for the lodging houses, later boarding houses.

There are three sets of cards in this series. The first set (item numbers 001 to 106) dates from 1933 to 1957, and covers properties from Albion Street to St Andrew Place. The cards in this set are arranged alphabetically by street address and record the following information: expiry date of current license, receipt number, name of licensee, fee paid and date paid, date of registration, and remarks. The remarks column is used to note when the building is demolished or the lodging house closed, when a license is refused, or money refunded. The back of the card was used to note any complaints, notices served, or prosecutions. Licensees could be prosecuted for having too many lodgers, or unclean premises.

A Common Lodging House provided accommodation on a nightly basis, a Residential Lodging House provided accommodation on a weekly basis.

The second set of cards (item numbers 107 to 142) in this series dates from 1982 to 1997, and covers properties from Argyle Place to Windmill Street. It does not include cards for boarding houses in the areas transferred to South Sydney City Council in 1989. Some of these appear to be in the third set of cards. It is likely that these cards were transferred to South Sydney City Council's custody in 1989 and then returned when the City of Sydney and South and Sydney were amalgamated in 2004.

Unfortunately, it appears that the cards for the period in between these two sets have gone missing. A search of the Health Unit in 2002 failed to find any other cards.

Under the Local Government Act 1993 common lodging houses were reclassified as boarding houses. At this time, Council became responsible for Class III boarding houses (more than 12 people), and ceased to keep records of smaller houses. It also ceased to license the houses but was still responsible for inspecting them.

The cards in the second set are arranged alphabetically by street address and record the following information: address; contact name; number of kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, hand basins and showers; name of licensee; licensing period, whether it was new, a renewal or a transfer (column headed RTN), date recommended, number of bedrooms, numbers of boarders/lodgers; and the date of inspections, and any remarks. This remarks column has a number of shorthand remarks in it (rec for recommended, sfy for satisfactory, PNA for phone not answering, NACL for not available card left, NHCL for not home card left, CTT for ceased to trade). The health surveyor's code (eg FG) is intialled next to the remarks. The real initials of the health surveyor were not used.

The back of the card has space for further comments and often includes works that needed to be carried out to bring the property up to the required standards. Many of the houses were owned by the Department of Housing and the remarks include details of the relationshop between the licensee and the Department.

The third set of cards (item numbers 143-847) were transferred in 2006 when the Health Inspectors stopped annotating the cards and recorded details of inspections in Pathways, Council's Geographic Information System database. The last inspections recorded on the cards were carried out on 11 January 2006. At this time inspections were only carried out in response to complaints. This set dates from 1961 to 2006, although the majority of entries date from the 1980s and 1990s. Most of the cards only record street address, receipt number, license period, amount paid, name of manager, and license number. They are often stamped with "Ceased to Trade". A small number of the cards relating to Class III and IV boarding houses record address; contact name; number of kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, hand basins and showers; name of licensee; licensing period, whether it was new, a renewal or a transfer (column headed RTN), date recommended, number of bedrooms, numbers of boarders/lodgers; and the date of inspections, and any remarks. The back of the card was used to note any complaints, notices served, or prosecutions.

In 1993, an officer of South Sydney City Council compiled a list of boarding houses over ten rooms and under ten rooms that were trading in 1993, and boarding houses which had ceased to trade as at 1993. There are no cards in Archives for some of these premises. This typed list is kept in the Information Folder for Boarding Houses kept in Archives.

This same officer compiled a database of boarding houses recording the address, business name, type of boarding house (Class 1B, Class 3, Private Hotel, Guest House, or Backpackers). A report from this database, dated 21 November 2006, is also available in the Archives Information Folder.
Start Date qual: c.
Start Date: 01/01/1933
End Date qual:
End Date: 11/01/2006Relationship legacy dataCREATED BY: City Health Department AG-0073 (01/01/1933 to 23/07/1979) CREATED BY: Health and Community Services AG-0006 (23/07/1979 to 31/12/1992) CREATED BY: South Sydney City Council City Environment Department AG-0219 (1/7/2002 to 6/2/2004) CREATED BY: South Sydney City Council Health and Community Services Department AG-0034 (1/1/1989 to 1/7/2002) CREATED BY: City Planning, Development and Transport AG-0209 (15/12/2003 to 11/1/2006) CREATED BY: City Development and Projects AG-0206 (1/9/2002 to 15/12/2003) CREATED BY: City Development AG-0135 (01/01/1993 to 28/08/1996) CREATED BY: Living City Services AG-0177 (28/08/1996 to 1/4/2001) RELATED TO: Health inspections of premises AY-33 (22/01/1982 to 11/1/2006) RELATED TO: Licensing and inspection of boarding and lodging houses AY-81 (01/01/1933 to 11/1/2006) LanguageEnglish (eng)Archivist noteFrom 1 April 2001 to 1 September 2002, CA 135, City Development was responsible for this series.

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Common Lodging House Licence Card: 308½ Elizabeth St, Surry Hills. Beatrice M. LeLant 15 Sep 1933.

Boarding House Licence Card. 2 Crown Street Woolloomooloo. Anitra Holdings P/L C/. Craig Miller P/L

Boarding House Licence Card. 19 Craigend Street Kings Cross. Churchwarden, St. John's Church 25 Mar

Boarding House Licence Card. 54 Cook Road Centennial Park. A.G. Ferstat and N.A. Ferstat 25 Mar

Boarding House Licence Card. 52 Cook Road Paddington. Norma Ferstat 25 Mar 1982 - 30 Jun 1984.

Boarding House Licence Card. 46 Cook Road Paddington. Dorothy Moclair 16 Mar 1982 - 30 Jun 1988.

Boarding House Licence Card. 42 Cook Road Paddington. Jason Jassonos 20 Jul 1982 - 30 Jun 1988.

Boarding House Licence Card. 27-35 Cook Road Paddington (Town House). Dennis Kilgannon 30 Sept 1982

Boarding House Licence Card. 26 Cook Road Paddington. Robert Peter Donato 7 Jul 1983 - 30 Jun 1984.

Boarding House Licence Card. 21 Cook Road Paddington. Metod Novak 20 April 1982 - 30 Jun 1988.

Boarding House Licence Card. 14 Cook Road Paddington. Antonio and Teresa Zanatta 21 Jul 1982 - 30

Boarding House Licence Card. 215 Commonwealth Street Surry Hills (Transfer to) 268 Chalmers Street

Boarding House Licence Card. 121 Commonwealth Street Surry Hills. Mrs Poy Lan Yee 1 Oct 1982 - 30

Boarding House Licence Card. 209 Cleveland Street Redfern. Peter Frangolilis 2 Dec 1982 - 30 Jun

Boarding House Licence Card. 150 City Road Chippendale. St. Michael's College, Catholic Archdiocese

Boarding House Licence Card. 46 City Road Chippendale. Mr J. Jasz and Mrs E.M. Jasz 7 Jul 1982 - 30

Boarding House Licence Card. 248 Church Street Newtown. Nicholas John Stamell and Paul John Stamell

Boarding House Licence Card. 11 Charles Street Erskineville. Revolving Door P/L 5 Aug 1982 - 30 Jun

Boarding House Licence Card. 8 Challis Ave Potts Point. Demeti P/L 25 Aug 1988 - 30 Jun 1989.

Boarding House Licence Card. 6 Challis Ave Potts Point. Mrs J.E. Bridge 20 Apr 1982 - 30 Jun 1986.

Boarding House Licence Card. 109 Cathedral Street East Sydney. Susan E. Garlick 8 Jun 1982 - 30 Jun

Boarding House Licence Card. 104 Cathedral Street Potts Point. Tagan P/L 1 Sept 1982 - 30 Jun 1984.

Boarding House Licence Card. 102 Cathedral Street Potts Point. Tagan P/L 1 Sept 1982 - 30 Jun 1984.

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Common Lodging House Licence Cards - CSA069089

Common Lodging House Licence Cards - CSA069088

Common Lodging House Licence Cards - CSA045191

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Identification and Arrangement

Source system ID783System of arrangementAlphabetical

Disposal

Disposal statusArchived

Data Quality

Legacy dataRegistered by: Angela McGing
Registered date: 15/04/1994
Amendments: Angela McGing 26 Aug 2002
Angela McGing 26 Nov 2006
Mark Stevens, 19 Feb 2008
Last amendment date: 26/11/2006
Other Disposal Instruments: GDA 10 for Local Government Records
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System of arrangements: Alphabetical
Series control status: All surviving cards are listed in Archives Investigator and digitised
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UpdatedDate: 11/10/2012
UpdatedUser: Oct 11 2012 4:12PM

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Source systemBusiness operation system (BOS); Archives investigatorCreating agenciesHealth and Community ServicesCity Health DepartmentLiving City ServicesCity DevelopmentCity Development and ProjectsCity Planning, Development and TransportSouth Sydney City Council Health and Community Services DepartmentSouth Sydney City Council City Environment DepartmentRelated activitiesLicensing and inspection of boarding and lodging housesHealth inspections of premises

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