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The diarrhoea death-rate was equal to 0 71 per 1,000 in the first,
and 028 in the second period; for all London during the same periods
it was 0 79 and 0'67 respectively.
Housing and Town Planning Act.—The Council on February 17th,
1910, determined that as certain of the provisions of this Act are so
closely related to those contained in the Public Health (London) Act, it
is desirable that the execution of the Act, together with such sections
of the principal and amending Acts, in so far as they relate to the
remedying, closing, or demolition of insanitary houses, should be made
a reference to the Public Health Committee of the Council instead of to
the Housing Committee.
The Local Government Board on September 2nd, 1910, issued a
series of regulations with reference to the systematic inspection of
dwelling.houses and the keeping of records in respect thereof. It is
required that there shall be submitted to the local authority special lists
of dwelling.houses, early inspection of which is desirable, and that
information and particulars in tabular form shall be included in the
Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health in regard to the
number of dwelling.houses inspected under and for the purposes of
Section 17, the number of which on inspection were considered unfit
for habitation, the number of representations made to the local authority,
and the subsequent action taken thereon. I have therefore to report as
follows:—
Houses inspected under Section 17 21
Representations made as to unfitness 9
Closing Orders made 9
Orders complied with 9
Number of houses since put into habitable state 0
Undergroimd rooms represented under Section 17 12
Closing Orders made 11
Still under consideration 1
The dwelling.houses with regard to which representations were made
by the Medical Officer of Health were Nos. 48, 50, 58, 62, 64, 68 and 70,
Tufton Street, and Nos. 41 and 43, Wood Street. The houses in Tufton
Street had been unoccupied for some time, and had become dilapidated
and a danger to the neighbourhood, being receptacles for refuse. Internal
connections with the drains were not cut off, so that rats and effluvia
could escape. Two of the houses were very old, the date of their
erection being stated to be 1679.*
* Tufton Street is named after Sir Richard Tufton, who is said to have built the first
houses in this street. He died in 1631.