Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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proceedings were considered necessary, but the Housing Committee
directed that cautionary letters should be sent to the offenders.
Action under Section 62 of the Housing Act, 1936.
Section 62 of the Housing Act prescribes that every rent book
or similar document shall contain a summary of the overcrowding
provisions of the Act, together with a statement as to the "permitted
number" for the dwelling.
During the year in 19 cases (relating to 19 houses) this section
was found to have been contravened. Satisfactory explanations
having been received, and the rent books having been put in order,
cautionary letters were, by the direction of the Housing Committee,
addressed to the offenders.
Structural Defects.
The attention of the District Surveyor of the London County
Council was drawn, in 85 instances, to structural defects observed
by the Sanitary Inspectors during the course of their duties.
Insanitary Houses.
The following is a list of streets in the Borough in which houses were found, on inspection, to be insanitary, and were dealt with by the Council under the provisions of the Housing Acts, either informally or by the service of notice under section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936, or under the provisions of section 12 of the Act, during 1937
Street. | Houses dealt with. | Street. | Houses dealt with. | Street. | Houses dealt with. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chalmers Street | 10 | Parkham Street | 3 | Ingrave Street | 7 |
Corunna Road | 1 | Petworth Street | 3 | Louvaine Road | 1 |
Gonsalva Road | 29 | Radstock Street | 1 | Meyrick Road | 5 |
Motley Street | 46 | Surrey Lane | 1 | Newcomen Road | 1 |
Stewarts Road | 1 | Winstead Street | 52 | St. Johns Hill | |
Grove | 44 | ||||
Winstanley Road | 1 | ||||
Austin Road | 1 | Afghan Road | 3 | ||
York Road | 1 | ||||
B. Park Rd. | 3 | Cabul Road | 4 | ||
Dagnall Street | 1 | Candahar Road | 1 | ||
Henley Street | 1 | Harroway Road | 2 | Gowrie Road | 1 |
Landseer Street | 2 | Ingrave Street | 4 | Lavender Sweep | 1 |
Latchmere Road | 1 | Kambala Road | 10 | ||
Marney Road | 1 | ||||
Latchmere Street | 3 | Mantua Street | 6 | ||
Longhedge Street | 6 | Musjid Road | 3 | ||
Newtown Street | 1 | Rowena Crescent | 2 | Almeric. Road | 1 |
Orkney street | 2 | Stainforth Road | 1 | Bennerley Road | 1 |
Ravenet Street | 2 | ||||
Rollo Street | 2 | Boutflower Road | 1 | ||
St. James Grove | 1 | Beaufoy Road | 4 | BolingbrokeGrove | 2 |
Boundaries Road | 1 | ||||
Dorothy Road | 1 | ||||
Buckmaster Road | 17 | ||||
Queens Road | 1 | ||||
B. Bridge Rd | 3 | St. Philip Street | 1 | Darley Road | 1 |
B. High Street | 1 | Hillier Road | 1 | ||
Tennyson Street | 1 | ||||
Bridge Rd. West | 4 | Honeywell Road | 2 | ||
Tyneham Road | 17 | ||||
Ethelburga Street | 17 | Leathwaite Road | 3 | ||
Granfield Street | 1 | Mallinson Road | 12 | ||
Henning Street | 1 | Andoe Road | 1 | Salcott Road | 2 |
Hyde Lane | 8 | Cologne Road | 2 | Sangora Road | 1 |
Orbel Street | 2 | Darien Road | 1 | Strathblaine Rd. | 3 |