Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1927 page 101

Battersea 1927

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1927

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Statistics for the year ending 31st December, 1927.

1. General.
(a) Estimated population	169,000
(b) General Death Rate	12.2 per 1,000
(c) Death rate from tuberculosis	1.04 per 1,000
(d) Infantile mortality rate	53.5 per 1,000
(e) Number of premises used as habitations by all classes		27,901
(f) Estimated number of working class dwelling-houses		25,010
(g) Number of new working class dwellings erected		*90
2. Unfit Dwelling-Houses.
(a) Inspection—
(a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts)		5,384
(b) Number of dwelling-houses which were inspected and recorded under Part IV of the Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925		3,909
(c) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for habitation ...		Nil
(d) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those referred to under the previous heading) not found to be in all respects reasonably fit for habitation		3,582
(b) Remedy of defects without service of formal notice— Number of dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence of informal action by the local authority or their officers		407
(c) Action under statutory powers—
(I.) Proceedings under section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925
(a) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were served requiring repairs		†24
(b) Number of dwelling-houses which were rendered fit:— (i.) By owners		35
(ii.) Work commenced by local authority but workmen subsequently withdrawn and work completed by owner		Nil

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*Includes 18 tenements erected under Plough Road Improvement Scheme.
† In addition 1 notice was re-served.