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Battersea 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]

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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.
In 49 cases (relating to 59 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 97 instances, to structural defects observed
by the Sanitary Inspectors during the course of their duties.

Table: 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 section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936, either informally or by the service of notice.

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 section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936, either informally or by the service of notice.

Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.
No. 1 District—No. 3 Dist. (cont.)No. 6 District—
Chalmers Street23Octavia Street39Creek Street2
Ruskin Street1Orbel Street1Darien Roadl
Silverthorne Road23Parkham Street5Lavender Road45
Stewarts Road2Searle Street1Livingstone Road1
Wadhurst Road88Surrey Lane2Meyrick Road2
No. 2 District-Ursula Street47Newcomen Roadl
Austin Road1Worfield Street1Plough Roadl
Culvert Road1No. 4 District—No. 7 District-
Dagnall Street22Afghan Road1Eccles Roadl
Landseer Street1Badric Road2Lavender Sweepl
Latchmere Road1Benfield Street2
Latchmere Street2Cabul Road6Nansen Road1
Leitrim Grove1Ingrave Street1Stormont Roadl
Longhedge Street29Kerrison Road3Sugden Road2
Millgrove Street6Lubeck Street1No. 8 District-
Orkney Street1Mantua Street22Abyssinia Roadl
Ravenet Street2Orville Road1
No. 3 District—Rowena Crescent2Almeric Road2
Belleville Road1
Ashurst Street2Stain forth Road1Bramfield Roadl
Battersea Bridge Road3Wayford Street3Burland Roadl
No. 5 District—Dents Roadl
Battersea Park Road1Beaufoy Road1Grandison Roadl
Dorothy Road1Leathwaite Road3
Edna Street27Latchmere Road1Lindore Road19
Elcho Street1Queens Road1Mallinson Road28
Ethelburga Street1Tennyson Street4Northcote Road1
Granfield Street5Wickersley Road3Salcott Road1
Henning Street6Wycliffe Road2Sarsfeld Road1