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 Hampstead Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
OVERCROWDING
Dwellings | Families | Adults | Children | |
---|---|---|---|---|
On register 31. 12.59 | 212 | 212 | 538 | 331 |
New cases 1960 | 35 | 35 | 83 | 61 |
247 | 247 | 621 | 392 | |
Rehoused 1960 | 22 | 22 | 68 | 29 |
On register 31. 12. 60 | 225 | 225 | 553 | 363 |
CERTIFICATES OF DISREPAIR
Applications for certificates 5
Applications withdrawn or cancelled NIL
Certificates refused NIL
Authority to issue certificates -
(a) in respect of some but not all defects 1
(b) in respect of all defects 4 5
Undertakings given by landlords 2
Undertakings refused NIL
Certificates issued 3
Applications for cancellation of certificates 1
Objections by tenants to cancellation of certificates NIL
Decisions to cancel in spite of tenants objection NIL
Certificates cancelled 1
HOUSING ACT, 195 7. SECTION 9
Repair of Insanitary Houses
Out of 188 premises surveyed by the Housing Inspector and
the District Public Health Inspectors, fifteen were subsequently
reported to the Public Health Committee as being unfit and suitable
for action under Section 9. Appropriate action under the Public
Health (London) Act was taken with the remainder.
REHOUSING
Visits and revisits in connection with the
investigation of 231 rehousing applicants 548
No. of reports submitted to Hampstead Housing Manager 214
No. of reports submitted to Other Boroughs 17