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[1932
HOUSING.
REPORT BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ON THE
INSPECTION OF CERTAIN PROPERTIES IN THE BOROUGH.
On pages 61-65 of the Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report for 1931 is
a full report of the housing surveys undertaken by the Public Health Department.
This report was considered by the Joint Public Health and Housing Committees on
the 15th June, 1931, when several areas were personally inspected by members of
the Committee with a view to further consideration.
RE-CONDITIONING OF HOUSES.
During the year in respect of some of these areas visited, as the result of
intimations, re-conditioning of houses was effected. 63 intimations for re-conditioning
were served under Secton 17 of the Housing Act, 1930, the Council being
satisfied that the houses were occupied or were of a type suitable for occupation by
persons of the working classes, and were unfit for human habitation. Notices
were served on the owners of the property in respect of particulars which were set
out in separate schedules. Among these, the particular houses which had been
viewed by the Committee in 1931 were:—Fairbridge Road, 6 houses re-conditioned.
Ellenborough Road, 2 houses, and the houses in Cornelia Street were voluntarily
re-conditioned by the owner.
Apart from these districts, however, notices under the Housing Act were
served against houses in the following roads:—Blenheim Road, Nicholay Road,
Cornwallis Road, Lysander Grove, Windsor Road (2), Grovedale Road, Kiver
Road, Hornsey Road, Mulkern Road, Marlborough Road, Duncombe Road; these
are all in Upper Holloway Ward. As regards Tollington Ward, notices under the
Housing Acts were served on houses in the following roads:—Beaumont Road,
Hanley Road, Bracey Street (4), Almington Street, Hornsey Road (2), Hazellville
Road, Hornsey Rise Gardens, Regina Road, Turle Road, Tollington Place, Thorpedale
Road and Shaftesbury Road.
In Highbury Ward a notice was served in respect of premises in Hamilton
Road. In Mildmay Ward notices were served in respect of houses in Caroline
Cottages and Mayville Street.
In Thornhill Ward, Freeling Street (3), Outram Street, Havelock Street,
Caledonian Road, Lyon Street, Blundell Street (2), York Road, Charlotte Terrace,
Winchester Street.
In the Barnsbury Ward notice was served in respect of a house in Barnsbury
Road. In St. Mary's Ward, one notice was served in respect of a house in Allen
Street, and in St. Peter's Ward, one house in Remington Street.
UNDERGROUND ROOMS.
On the 21st October the Borough Council issued a Closing Order under
Section 20 of the Housing Act, 1930, in respect of two underground rooms at 100,
Newington Green Road. In compliance with the Order the rooms were vacated
on the 5th December, 1932, and have not been re-let.
Action was taken under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in respect of
an underground room at 7, Gifford Street, let as a dwelling. The person letting
was fined £1 1s. 0d. Action was also taken here against the occupier for occupying
the said underground room. The summons was withdrawn when the premises
were vacated.