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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Pancras 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: The number of houses inspected under Sec. 17 by individual Inspectors is shown in the next table:—

The number of houses inspected under Sec. 17 by individual Inspectors is shown in the next table:—

Inspector.Number of Houses Inspected.Total.
1st routine inspection.Subsequent routine inspection.
Mr. Rackham177-177
,, Brown64—64
,, Thompson98—98
,, Dillon7—7
„ Auger „ James277 106—277 106
,, West56—56
,, Lonnon39—39
,, Adkins161—161
,, Holmes104—104
„ Walker21126237
,, Landen245-245
Total1545261571

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As was previously stated most of the above recorded inspections involved
subsequent visits for supervising work in progress and other purposes.
The notices which were served by the Inspectors in respect of houses
inspected under the 1910 Regulations were all served under Acts and bylaws
[such as the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the tenement house
by-laws], independently of any new powers conferred by the Housing and
Town Planning Act. The intimation notices which were served numbered
1132.
In addition closing orders were made under Sec. 17 in respect of certain
houses (see p. 73), and the use for sleeping purposes of a number of basement
rooms was forbidden under the same section (see p. 67). Section 15 of the Act
was not brought into operation.
Reference is made (p. 67) to the provision of water supply on the
different floors of tenement houses. As a result mainly of the house to house
inspections, intimation notices were served during 1913 for this purpose, under
Sec. 78 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, in respect
of 3.53 houses.
The plan of routine inspection under the Housing Act practically replaces
the routine inspections carried out under the old system.