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Tenements, houses registered under the bye-laws for houses let in
lodgings are also required to be cleansed thoroughly once a year by
the landlord. Now this provision of annual cleaning should be
applied to every house occupied by the working classes, if not, these
houses ought to at least be put on as high a sanitary level as workshops
under the Public Health Act (London), 1901, that is that the
cleansing of any room should be compulsory on the certificate of a
Medical Officer of Health. See (Sec. 25. (1.) above, as in workshops.)
If this amendment of the law could be effected, the work of the local
authority in dealing with dirty rooms would be much simplified and
made more effectual.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
Part I.
Early in the year I made a representation in accordance with sec.
5. of the above Act to the London County Council respecting an area
in the London Fields district.
The following is a copy of the representation : —
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
London ( ).
Improvement Area.
To the London County Council.
I, J. King Warry, M.D., of No. 39, Filey Avenue, Clapton Common, in
the County of London, Medical Officer of Health of the Parish of Hackney, in
the said County, Do hereby, with reference to a certain area within the Parish
of Hackney, which is delineated and coloured red on the plan hereunto annexed
and signed by me, make an Official Representation within the meaning of the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, to the effect following—that is to
say :—
1.—That the houses, courts, or alleys, within the said area are unfit for
human habitation ; and
2.—That the narrowness, closeness, and bad arrangement, or the bad streets
and houses or groups of houses within such area, or the want of light,,
air, ventilation, or proper convenitnces, or any other sanitary defects,
or one or more of such causes, are dangerous or injurious to the health
of the inhabitants of either of the buildings in the said area.