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 1923
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6,413 | |
3,834 | |
(c) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation | Nil |
(id) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those referred to under the previous heading) not found to be in all respects reasonably fit for habitation | 3,565 |
(B) Remedy of defects without service of formal notice— | |
Number of dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence of informal action by the local authority or their officers | 158 |
(I.) Proceedings under Section 28 of the Housing, Town Planping, etc., Act, 1919 | |
661 | |
(i.) By owners ...... ...... | 80 |
(ii.) Bv Local Authority in default of owners ... | 34 |
(c) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which Closing Orders became operative in pursuance of declarations by owners of intention to close ... | Nil |
(II.) Proceedings under Public Health Acts | |
(a) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were served requiring defects to be remedied ............ | 3,371 |
(i.) By owners ............ | 3,144 |
(ii.) By Local Authority in default of owners ... | Nil |
* In addition, in view of the " Rush " decision or for other reasons, 51
notices were re-served and are not included in above number.