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1910]
In sub-section 2 of the same section it becomes the duty of the Local
Authority if it appears to them to be in such a state to make an order
prohibiting the use of the dwelling house for human habitation until in
the judgment of the Local Authority the dwelling house is rendered fit
for that purpose.
Under sub-section 3 it is provided that a closing order shall be forthwith
served on every owner of the dwelling house in respect to which it
is made, and any owner aggrieved by the order may appeal to the Local
Government Board by giving notice of appeal to the Board within 14 days
after notice is served upon him.
I am,
Your faithful servant,
A. E. HARRIS,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall, Islington, N.
9th May, 1910.
The Public Health Committee subsequently submitted a report to the
Council recommending that an Order under section 17 of the Housing and
Town Planning Act, 1909, be made with respect to these premises, and that
the Seal of the Council be affixed to such Order. This was accordingly done
by the Council, who on June 3rd passed the necessary Order.
The Medical Officer of Health also made representations with respect to
dwelling houses numbered and known as 48, 50, 52 and 54 Queensland Road;
10, 12, 14 and 16, Henshall Street, and 27 and 29, Orchard Street, that they
were in such a state as to be dangerous or injurious to health, and unfit for
human habitation, and the Public Health Committee having recommended the
Council that they be closed, they (the Council) after having heard the owners
or other persons interested in the property, made the necessary Orders on the
21st October, 1910.
STATE OF PAUPERISM IN THE BOROUGH.
As a rule pauperism and ill-health go hand in hand, for wherever people
are destitute and without food, there too, as a rule, much illness is to be
found. It is satisfactory, however, to know that in Islington at all events, such
has not been the case, for if the health of the borough had risen
in the ratio in which the number of paupers increased, instead of being as
good as it is, it would have been very indifferent. Still, it is not
satisfactory to find that the average number of paupers relieved
weekly has now reached the large figure of 10,773, as contrasted with an average