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Hampstead 1938

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

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Result of Action during 1938.

Number of rooms made to conform.Number of rooms closed or illegal occupation discontinued.Total number of rooms.Number of premises concerned.
Action under Public Health Act, 193695Nil.9545
Action under Housing Acts34427636
Action as the result of voluntary conversion of premises into flats and in connection with new buildings33Nil.3315
1624220496

The number of Underground Rooms found not to comply with
the requirements in the houses in the allocation above (2), (3) and (4),
totalled 437. They were found to exist in 229 premises. Of these
rooms 61 were found in 25 Tenement Houses.

Summary of Underground Room Register at 31st December, 1938.

(1) Premises found to comply with Underground Room Requirements433
(2) Premises found not to comply but which can be made to comply515
(3) Premises found not to comply and cannot be made to comply (i.e., Closure only alternative, action deferred pending provision of satisfactory accommodation)118
(4) Premises found which do not comply in minor details only (no action contemplated)14
(5) Premises found to be used for purposes other than for human habitation, or unoccupied64
1144

County Council Housing Estates.
The following figures relate to families removed to London
County Council Estates since 1927, through the action of the Borough
Council:—
Number of houses at the Wormholt Estate at the disposal
of the Borough Council by payment to the L.C.C. of a
yearly subsidy of £7 per house 62
Carried forward 62