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Islington 1919

Sixty-fourth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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87
[1919
Number of buildings demolished Nil
Number of Orders for repairs issued under section 28 of the
Housing Act, 1919 1
Number of houses repaired by local authorities Nil
Number of houses closed on notice by owner that they could not
be made fit Nil
Total number of houses in the borough 39,938
Number of houses for the working classes—
(a) Erected during year Nil
(b) In course of erection Nil
Number of houses occupied by the working classes Fully two-thirds
of the dwelling
houses in the
borough.
Smoke nuisances—
Number of observations 52
Number of notices 2
Number of nuisances and complaints 10
Number of summonses 1
Underground Rooms—
Number illegally occupied 3
Number closed or illegal occupation discontinued 3
Overcrowding—
Number of rooms overcrowded 11
Number remedied 11
Prosecutions Nil
Cleansing—
Number of adults cleansed 19
Number of children cleansed 4,838
Cleansing—
Number of rooms or premises cleansed 4,832
Water supply to tenement houses—
Premises supplied 28
Prosecutions Nil
Sale of Food—
Number of premises used other than ice cream premises, milk
shops and cowsheds 491
Number of inspections 10,177