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voluntarily closed the houses rather than spend the money
required to put them into such a condition as to comply with
the notices served upon them.
The Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, has been
carefully considered by the Public Health Committee, and
that portion of the Borough lying between the River Thames
and the main road throughout the district, i.e., Woolwich,
Trafalgar and Greenwich Roads, together with the continuation
of Eastney Street on the south side of the main road,
and in the West Wayd the rectangular plot enclosed by
Lewisham Road, John Penn Street, the River Ravensbourne,
and Albion Hill, and in the South Ward the somewhat rectangular
plot enclosed by Blackheath Hill, Maidenstone Hill,
Point Hill, Blissett Street, and South Street, has been
delineated as the district for the special inspections required
under the Act. It was decided that no additional or special
Inspectors should be at present appointed to carry out the
provisions of this Act, but that the District Inspectors should
themselves carry out the inspections each in their respective
districts. During the year 478 houses in this district have
been inspected under the Act, the records of such properties
being duly filed. Of this number, nuisances or defects were
found in 442 cases, concerning which houses the necessary
notices under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, were
served. Of these 442 houses thus dealt with, in 45 cases the
landlord voluntarily elected to close the property instead
of complying with the notices, and 17 of these 45 were demolished.
In 323 cases the notices were satisfactorily complied
with, leaving 74 cases still in hand or otherwise undisposed
of at the end of the year.
As indicated above, it will be noticed that all the
nuisances or defects found upon inspection under the
Housing and Town Planning Act, have been satisfactorily
dealt with under the process of the Public Health (London)