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Nos. 52 and 54, Overbury Street—Over 1ft. of water in back yard.
Nos. 234 to 244, 248 to 252, 219 to 227, 233 to 235, Rushmore
Road—Water under floors through air bricks and over door sills.
Nos. 1, 6, 11 to 31, 47 to 55, 10 to 14, 18 to 50, Oswald Street—
Water under floors through air bricks in front.
Nos. 10, 12, 14, 16, 17a, 19a, 21a, 23a, 25a, 29a, 27, 23, 25, 17,15,
Maclaren Street—Water under floors through air bricks and over
door sills,
Notices were served upon the owners to abate the nuisance. The
Borough Council also sent help to remove the sewage-polluted soil
beneath the floors of the rooms flooded. The amount expended by
the Council in the relief work was £166 6s. 5d.
In addition to calling upon the owners of the affected premises to
abate the immediate nuisance and rendering them assistance as above
stated, the Public Health Committee presented the following report
to the Borough Couucil on the subject.
"The attention of your Committee has been called by the Medical
Officer of Health to the recurring flooding of houses in Maclaren and
other streets, Clapton Park, caused by the insufficient capacity of the
London County Council's sewer draining that district."
"The Medical Officer of Health reports that the floodings, which
have occurred not more, on an average, than once a year in the past,
have since June last recurred no less than seven times. After each
flood steps have been taken to remove the sewage, etc., from these
premises, to prevent injury to the health of the inmates of the
houses affected, but these efforts have not been successful. He has
expressed the opinion that the recurring floods are prejudically
affecting the health of the inmates of these premises, and under these
circumstances they are unfit for habitation, and advises that legal
steps should be taken to obtain closing orders for these houses."