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South End House has been demolished. The other premises
have been boarded up and still remain closed.
Town Ward Scheme. On the 3rd April, 1917, I submitted a
report to the Public Health Committee calling their attention to the
fact that a number of houses in the Town Ward were, in my opinion,
unfit for human habitation, and that the prevailing conditions were
such as could only be dealt with by a re-construction scheme, as the
result of which the Council directed a survey and examination to be
made and when this had been carried out, on the 20th December, 1917
1 represented the properties referred to, comprising 75 premises, to the
London County Council under part 1 of the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, 1890.
The Water Supply of Tenement Houses.
During 1917, the powers conferred by Section 78 of the L.C.C.
General Powers Act, 1907, have been exercised in regard to 30 houses,
making a total of 863 houses which have been dealt with in Hampstead
since the Act came into force.
Factories and Workshops Act.
Whilst maintaining careful supervision of the sanitary conditions
of the workshops and workplaces, due regard has been paid to the
altered conditions now pertaining. In many establishments women
have taken the place of men, so that establishments are now employing
both sexes when they formerly employed one. The Local Government
Board in a letter upon this subject dated 14th June, 1915, suggested
that endeavours should be made to re-arrange things as to obviate the
expense of providing double sanitary accommodation. These arrangements
would be only temporary during the War. This suggestion was
adopted and adhered to.