Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
Number of Houses considered on inspection to be unfit for human habitation | 1 |
Number of Houses wherein defects were remedied by informal action | Nil |
Number of Representations made with a view to : | |
(a) serving notices requiring the execution of works | Nil |
(b) making demolition or closing orders | 1 |
Number of Notices served requiring the execution of repairs | Nil |
Number of Houses rendered fit after service of notices | Nil |
Number of demolition or closing orders made | 1 |
Number of Houses in respect of which undertakings | |
were accepted | Nil |
Number of Houses Demolished | Nil |
Houses let In Lodgings.
The register compiled in 1935 was maintained and at the end
of the year contained entries in relation to 427 houses. No action
was taken during the year under the Byelaws applicable to them.
The Byelaws were subsequently repealed by the Housing Repairs
and Rents Act, 1954.
Housing.
A list of the new properties which have been completed since
the war was given in the 1950 and 1951 reports. During the year
the following new flats were completed:—
Stafford Cripps Estate 49 flats
Bevin Court 118 flats
Holford House 12 flats
Greenwood House 22 flats
Peabody Buildings 16 flats