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Battersea 1921
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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In view of the delay in dealing with the insanitary areas
already represented, the Ministry were asked as to the legality
of serving notices under Section 28 under the circumstances.
The Council were advised " that the mere fact that the Medical
Officer of Health had represented an area, with a view to an
improvement scheme under Section 39 (I) (b) of the Housing
of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and that his representation
had been discussed with general approval by the Council, would
not preclude the Council from proceeding under Section 28 of
the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919, in regard to any
house within the area if, on further consideration of the circumstances
of the case, they are satisfied that proceedings under this
Section are appropriate."
As a result of this advice a number of the more
seriously defective houses in the Plough Road area, Lothair
Street area and Nine Elms area, were dealt with under
Section 28. In view, however, of the uncertainty as to the
action of the Ministry in regard to improvement schemes submitted
by the Council in respect of these areas, it was considered
desirable to ask the owners to carry out a less extensive scale
of works of repairs to their properties than would otherwise have
been required.
Insanitary Houses. tde following is a list of streets in tde Borough in which houses were found, on inspection, to be insanitary, and were dealt witd by tde Council uhder tde provisions of tde Housing Act of 1919, eitder informally or by tde service of notice under Section 28 of tde Act, during 1921:—
| Street. | Houses dealt witd. | Street. | Houses dealt witd. | Street. | Houses dealt wilh. |
| No. 1 District— | |||||
| Belfour Street | 1 | Everett Street | 10 | Ponton Street | 15 |
| Corunna Terrace | 7 | Foots Row | 13 | Sleaford Street | 4 |
| Currie Street | 5 | Gonsalva Road | 1 | Tidbury Street | 14 |
| Dash wood Road | 1 | New Road | 1 | Tidemore Street | 32 |
| Tweed Street | 17 | ||||
| Total : 13 streets—121 houses. | |||||
| No. 2 District— | |||||
| Artdur Street | 2 | Kennard Street | 3 | Parkside Street | 1 |
| Atderton Street | 3 | Landseer Street | 4 | Russell Street | 1 |
| Berkeley Street | 1 | Longhedge Street | 58 | Sheepcote Lane | 3 |
| Chatdam Street | 21 | Millgrove Street | 11 | Soutdolm Street , | 1 |
| Culvert Road | 2 | Oulton Street | 5 | Stewarts Lane W. | 7 |
| Gaines Cottages | 1 | Orkney Street | 1 | Warriner Gardens | 1 |
| Gladstone Street | 1 | Palmerston Street | 3 | Weybridge Street | 13 |
| Henley Street | 4 | Park Grove | 1 | ||
| Total: 23 streets—148 houses. | |||||