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Lambeth 1926

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

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many months ago. In all these cases, particulars of the addresses
will be given in future reports, when the work has been completed, or
practically completed, to the satisfaction of the Housing Inspectors.
In a comparatively few of the cases, in which no work has yet been
started, although the informal (provisional) schedules were prepared
and served many months ago, legal schedules or notices will be
required to be served in the usual way by the Council.
Special Areas.
Monkton Street Area. There is nothing new to report in connection
with this area. Nos. 41, 43, 45 and 53, Monkton Street are still
occupied, though no rents are being collected by the owners. These
four houses are the property of the Lambeth Board of Guardians, and
are required in connection with the improvement of the existing
Infirmary premises. Trowes Place (Nos. 4 and 5) are also the property
of the Lambeth Board of Guardians, and Closing Orders are still
outstanding on the houses which are occupied. These two houses
also form part of the Guardians' Lambeth Infirmary Scheme.
In this connection, the Borough Council has undertaken to re-house
the occupiers of the above-mentioned houses as a condition of the
Borough Council taking over the Prince's Road Workhouse as a
building site for working-class dwellings. Fortunately, this Prince's
Road Workhouse site has now been taken over by the Borough
Council and the new dwellings or tenements are being erected
thereon (108 in number), with a fixed bath provided in a separate
bathroom, in each case.
General Considerations.
The new Housing Act, 1925, was passed on April 9th, 1925, and
came into force on July 1st, 1925.

The details of work carried out by the Housing Inspectors, since their appointments in 1920, and up to and including December 31st, 1926, are as follows :—

1. Inspections made3380
2. Works completed or houses closed—
(a) under provisional schedules2818
(6) under legal schedules or notices101
2919
3. Works not yet completed or not yet commenced—
(a) under provisional schedules452
(b) under legal schedules or notices9
461