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 Islington Borough]
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SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS MADE, REPORTS SUBMITTED
NOTICES SERVED & NOTICES COMPLIED WITH
Housing Act 1957
Section 5 (Control of back to back dwellings)
Number of certificates issued 4
Section 9 (Repair of unfit houses)
Number of houses inspected 7
Re-inspections 49
Representations to Committee 5
Section 16/17 (Individual unfit houses)
Inspections and revisits 579
Houses represented to Committee 10
Closing Orders made 6
Demolition Orders made 1
Undertakings accepted 1
Houses demolished 2
Section 18 (Unfit parts of dwellings)
Inspections and revisits 2,788
Representations to Committee 76
Closing Orders made 70
Undertakings accepted NIL
Section 27 (Closing Orders or undertakings determined on completion of works)
Whole houses 3
Parts of buildings 18
Section 42 (Clearance Areas)
Number of areas surveyed 17
Total houses in areas 233
Areas represented to Council 14
Total houses in those areas represented 196
Inspections and revisits 801
Section 78 (Overcrowding)
Inspections and revisits 75
Cases reported to Committee 10
Overcrowding abated 11
Section 81 (Permitted numbers)
Inspections and re-inspections 14
Section 90 (Houses let in lodgings)
Inspections and re-inspections 47
Part V (Possible C.P.O. s ) (Other than Clearance Areas)
Inspections made 226
Housing Act, 1961 (Multiple occupation)
Section 12 (Management Orders)
Reports on individual houses submitted to Committee 19
Total of lettings in above houses 88
Inspections and revisits 427
Management orders made 4
Management orders determined 2
Letting density in houses reported 4.63
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