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 1921
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3. Unhealthy Areas.
Areas represented to the Local Authority with a view to
improvement schemes under (a) Part I. or (b) Part II.
of the Act of 1890:—
Nil.
With regard to the areas already scheduled as insanitary
areas, informal arrangements have been sanctioned
by the Housing Committee for the owners to carry
out such minimum necessary repairs to render the houses
reasonably fit for habitation.
4. New Houses.
Number of houses not complying with the building
by-laws erected with the consent of the Local
Authority under Section 25 of the Housing, Town
Planning, etc., Act, 1919: —
Nil.
5. Staff.
Staff engaged on Housing work, with briefly the duties
of each officer:—
1. Medical Officer of Health.
2. Chief Sanitary Inspector.
Housing Inspector.
•Eight District Sanitary Inspectors.
3. Two Clerks (mainly engaged on matters
relating to Housing work).
* Seven District Inspectors as from 12th November, 1921.
The number of houses subject to action under the
Housing Acts, either informally or by notice under Section 28
of the 1919 Act, carried forward for the year 1922 is 723.