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HOUSING.
During the year the Council's Sanitary Inspectors inspected
5,760 houses, including 1,703 house-to-house visits under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936. The number of intimation
notices served under the provisions of the Public Health (London)
Act requiring the abatement of nuisances in these dwelling-houses
was 7,624. It was necessary to serve 2,655 statutory notices, and
to issue 94 summonses m order to secure the abatement of the
nuisances existing. A summary of the work carried out by the
Sanitary Inspectors and Housing Inspectors appears on pages 58, 59
and 48, respectively,
Clearance Areas.
In my report for the year 1935, I outlined the Council's slum
clearance proposals and furnished particulars in respect of 27 areas
declared as clearance areas during the period January to December,
1935, see page 49.
During the year under review the declaration of small unhealthy
areas involving the re-housing of families and the demolition
of the buildings on these sites was continued by the Council, and
from January 1935 to date these operations have involved the
displacement of 401 families representing 1,480 persons. The
re-housing of families displaced from Clearance Area Schemes is
carried out by arrangement with the London County Council, to
whom the Council pays £1 17s. 6d. a year for a period of 40 years
for every dwelling provided.
A table showing the areas declared to be clearance areas by
this Council under the provisions of Section 1 of the Housing Act,
1930, during the year ended December 1936 appears on the
following page.
A map of the Borough is also reproduced in this section of the
report indicating the situation of the unhealthy areas schemes
which have received attention by this Authority and the London
County Council since January 1935, including Tiger Yard, Joiner's
Arms Yard and Woodland Cottages, which were represented in 1934.
Public Local Inquiries were held by Inspectors appointed by
the Minister of Health in respect of one unhealthy area declared
by the Council in 1935 and 6 areas declared during the period
covered by this report. With one exception the Clearance Orders
were confirmed by the Minister.
During the year payments were made by the Council at the
direction of the Minister of Health in accordance with the provisions
of Section 64 of the Housing Act, 1935, to the owner and the
tenant of one dwelling-house in an area which was the subject of a