Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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room has a hanging wardrobe, and hat and coat rails are
provided in the passages. The upper tenements are provided
with teak stair cases, giving access to the back gardens. The
buildings were erected by the Council's Works Department,
under the supervision of the Borough Surveyor, and, with the
exception of the Council's dwellings on the Latchmere Estate,
which they closely resemble, they are in design, construction
and equipment, the best workmen's dwellings I have yet seen.