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Battersea 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]

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proceedings were considered necessary, but the Housing Committee
directed that cautionary letters should be sent to the offenders.
Action under Section 62 of the Housing Act, 1936.
Section 62 of the Housing Act prescribes that every rent book
or similar document shall contain a summary of the overcrowding
provisions of the Act, together with a statement as to the "permitted
number" for the dwelling.
During the year in 19 cases (relating to 19 houses) this section
was found to have been contravened. Satisfactory explanations
having been received, and the rent books having been put in order,
cautionary letters were, by the direction of the Housing Committee,
addressed to the offenders.
Structural Defects.
The attention of the District Surveyor of the London County
Council was drawn, in 85 instances, to structural defects observed
by the Sanitary Inspectors during the course of their duties.
Insanitary Houses.

Table: 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 9 of the Housing Act, 1936, or under the provisions of section 12 of the Act, during 1937

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 9 of the Housing Act, 1936, or under the provisions of section 12 of the Act, during 1937

Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.Street.Houses dealt with.
No. 1 District—No. 3 Dist. (cont.)No. 6 Dist. (cont.)
Chalmers Street10Parkham Street3Ingrave Street7
Corunna Road1Petworth Street3Louvaine Road1
Gonsalva Road29Radstock Street1Meyrick Road5
Motley Street46Surrey Lane1Newcomen Road1
Stewarts Road1Winstead Street52St. Johns Hill
No. 2 District—No. 4 District—Grove44
Winstanley Road1
Austin Road1Afghan Road3
York Road1
B. Park Rd.3Cabul Road4
Dagnall Street1Candahar Road1No. 7 District—
Henley Street1Harroway Road2Gowrie Road1
Landseer Street2Ingrave Street4Lavender Sweep1
Latchmere Road1Kambala Road10
Marney Road1
Latchmere Street3Mantua Street6
Longhedge Street6Musjid Road3No. 8 Distyict—
Newtown Street1Rowena Crescent2Almeric. Road1
Orkney street2Stainforth Road1Bennerley Road1
Ravenet Street2
Rollo Street2No. 5 District—Boutflower Road1
St. James Grove1Beaufoy Road4BolingbrokeGrove2
Boundaries Road1
Dorothy Road1
No. 3 District—Buckmaster Road17
Queens Road1
B. Bridge Rd3St. Philip Street1Darley Road1
B. High Street1Hillier Road1
Tennyson Street1
Bridge Rd. West4Honeywell Road2
Tyneham Road17
Ethelburga Street17Leathwaite Road3
Granfield Street1No. 6 District—Mallinson Road12
Henning Street1Andoe Road1Salcott Road2
Hyde Lane8Cologne Road2Sangora Road1
Orbel Street2Darien Road1Strathblaine Rd.3