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Housing
The duties of the Housing section of the Public Health
Department are divided between action under the Housing Act
in relation to overcrowded, unfit and insanitary premises, and
negotiations between the London County Council, the Council's
Housing Manager and other authorities in connection with
applications for rehousing on grounds of medical necessity, overcrowding
and insanitary conditions.
It has, unfortunately, been necessary to curtail somewhat
Housing Act activities during the year owing to the acutely
serious shortage of Sanitary Inspectors.
HOUSING ACT, 1936
Insanitary houses capable of repair at reasonable expense
(Section 9)
Two formal notices under Section 9 of the Act were served
during the year involving fifteen flats. Two hundred and
fifty notices were issued requesting voluntary action by the
owner, and 127 houses have been rendered fit for habitation.
Insanitary houses incapable of repair at reasonable expense
(Section 11)
The following property was represented during the year
and a Demolition Order made:—
Phelp Street, 19—Demolition Order made 17.10.51

Premises demolished other than by Orders under Section 11.
Beckway Street, 60
Boyson Road, 65
Dawes Street, 86 & 88
East Street, 52, 58, 60, 62, 64
Elephant Road, 19
Great Dover Street, 114-116, 118-129, 132-134 (consecutive)
Great Suffolk Street, 146 and 148
Hatfields, 57 and 59
Isabella Street, 14, 15 and 16
John Ruskin Street, 4
Kings Place, 5
Lorrimore Road, 4-20 (alternately)
Lucas Road, 28
Munton Road, Flats 22/68