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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Battersea 1925

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925

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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 Acts, either informally or by the service of notice under Section 28 of the Housing Act, 1919 (now Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925), during 1925:—

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 Acts, either informally or by the service of notice under Section 28 of the Housing Act, 1919 (now Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925), during 1925:—

Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Housesdealtwith.
No. 1 District.
Belfour Street2New Road1Seymour Street9
Everett Street1Ponton Street13Sterndale Road1
Gonsalva Road3Savona Street1Stockdale Road1
Total:—9 streets, 32 houses. No. 2 District.
Abercrombie St.33Gladstone Terrace2Sheepcote Lane1
Alfred Street24Landseer Street31Southolm Street1
Anerley Street1Lockington Road1Stewarts Lane W.1
B'sea Park Road1Longhedge Street3Weybridge Street1
Berkeley Street1Rollo Street3
Total:—14 streets, 104 houses. No. 3 District.
B'sea Bridge Rd.2Goulden Street1Orville Road27
Bridge Road W.1Green Lane3Randall Street1
Bullen Street4Henry Street1Spencer Street2
Castle Street1Home Road3Surrey Lane4
Church Road3Hyde Lane1Yarmouth Cotts.4
Frances Street3In worth Street4
Total:—17 streets, 65 houses. No. 4 District.
Andoe Road1Latchmere Grove6Rowena Crescent5
Barmore Street1Lavender Road7Shillington Street2
Benfield Street5Lavender Terrace2Simpson Street1
Este Road1Lithgow Street2Stainforth Road7
Falcon Terrace2Lubeck Street1Totteridge Road1
Grant Road1Patience Road2Urswicke Road13
Gwynne Road5Pearson Street12Verona Street1
Harroway Road1Mantua Street1Wayford Street2
High Street1Meyrick Road6Winstanley Road2
Ingrave Street28Newcomen Road1Yelverton Road4
Kambala Road Khyber Road1Newman Street2York Road4
2
Total:—34 streets, 133 houses. No. 5 District.
Basnett Road2Poyntz Road1Wickersley Road2
Beaufoy Road19Shirley Grove1Wycliffe Road2
Mossbury Road1
Total:—7 streets, 28 houses. No. 6 District.
Didcot Street1Maysoule Road8Strathblaine Rd.1
Grant Road2Plough Road5Tritton Street1
Harbut Road2St. Johns Hill Gr.1Usk Road13
Hope Street16Speke Road1Winstanley Road2
Livingstone Road15
Total:—13 streets, 68 houses.