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Battersea 1924

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1924

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for their observations. The Council decided to approve the
by-laws, but exception was taken to the words " as far as practicable"
at the commencement of By-law No. 9, dealing with the separation
of the sexes.

Table: Insanitary Houses. The following is a list of streets in the Borough in which houses were found, on inspection, to be insanitary, and were dealt with by the Council under the provisions of the Housing Act of 1919, either informally or by the service of notice under Section 28 of the Act, during 1924 :—

Insanitary Houses. The following is a list of streets in the Borough in which houses were found, on inspection, to be insanitary, and were dealt with by the Council under the provisions of the Housing Act of 1919, either informally or by the service of notice under Section 28 of the Act, during 1924 :—

Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.
No. 1 District.
Belfour Street3Patmore StreetIWadhurst Road4
Chalmers Street1Power Street2Woodgate Street1
Gonsalva Road1Savona Street4
Total :—8 streets, 17 houses.
No. 2 District.
Abercrombie St.26Gaines Cottages2Orkney Street2
Alfred Street1Gladstone Terrace3Oulton Street6
Arthur Street4Henley Street55Raywood Street2
Austin Road2Kersley Street1Sheepcote Lane1
Blondel Street1Longhedge Street3Stewarts Lane W.1
Total :—15 streets, 110 houses.
No. 3 District.
Balfern Street1Elcho Street3Hyde Lane1
B'sea Bridge Road3Frances Street2Inworth Street3
Bolingbroke Rd.9Goulden Street2Orbel Street1
Bullen Street1Granfield Street2Park Road1
Castle Street2Henry Street1Rosenau Road1
Church Road3High Street2Surrey Lane4
Colestown Street1Home Road1Winstead Street18
Total21 streets, 62 houses.
No. 4 District.
Andoe Road1Kambala Road1Newcomen Road1
Barmore Street1Kerrison Road3Shillington Street14
Benfield Street11Khyber Road4Simpson Street2
Cabul Road2Knox Road1Stain forth Road3
Candahar Road1Latchmere Grove5Totteridge Road2
Creek Street3Lavender Road4Urswick Road1
Duffield Street3Lithgow Street2Verona Street2
Este Road2Lombard House1Way ford Street2
Gwynne Road13Lubeck Street3Winstanley Road4
Harroway Road3Mantua Street1Wye Street1
High Street2Meyrick Road5Yelverton Road2
Ingrave Street41Musjid Road9York Road1
Total :—36 streets, 157 houses.