London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
Continued from previous page...
| (c) Number of dwelling houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation | 11 |
| 5,433 | |
| (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 | 463 |
| (C) Action under Statutory Powers— | |
| (I.) Proceedings under Section 28 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, | |
| (a) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which notices were served requiring repairs | 211 |
| (b)Number of dwelling houses which were rendered fit— | |
| (i.) By owners | 47 |
| (ii.) By Local Authority in default of owners | 17 |
| (c) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which Closing Orders became operative in pursuance of declarations by owners of intention to close | Nil |
| (II.) Proceedings under Public Health Acts— | |
| (a) Number of dwelling houses in respect of which notices were served requiring defects to be remedied | 3,644 |
| (b) Number of houses in which defects were remedied— | |
| (i.) By owners | 3,725 |
| (ii.) By Local Authority in default of owners | Nil |