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General Housing Matters.
The Council's two Housing Sanitary Inspectors have continued
their special work of systematic house to house inspection of
dwelling-houses, and drawing up schedules of works required to render
such dwelling houses reasonably fit in all respects for human
habitation, under the powers conferred upon the Borough Council,
as the Local Housing Authority, under Section 3 of the Housing
Act, 1925.
During the year 1926, 676 Notices of Intention to Survey have
been issued, and sent or given to the occupiers, and to the owners,
of the houses selected by the Medical Officer of Health, and approved
by the Public Health Committee on behalf of the Council, as
required under Section 127 of the Housing Act, 1925. 414 Surveys
or Inspections have been made, under the Housing Inspection Regulations
of the Housing Act, 1925, and 413 Provisional (or Informal)
Schedules prepared, as suggested by the Ministry of Health in its
Manual on Policy and Practice (Volume I, Chap. 6, paragraph i),
setting forth the work required to render the houses fit in all respects
for human habitation, under Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925.
414 Record Cards have been filed, 414 visits, and 11,691 re-visits
made, and many interviews held at the Town Hall, or elsewhere, with
owners, agents, builders and others concerned. 543 drain tests have
been made in connection with the official inspections.
The preparation of the Provisional or Informal Schedules
involves a large amount of work and technical knowledge, as the
properties selected for systematic inspection during the year were
in a very bad state of repair, owing to neglect during the war (and
since), and, consequently, a large number of items had to be tabulated,
so as to avoid anything essential being omitted.
The Old Wards of the Borough have again been used, so as to
keep the present records in conformity with the previous records.
During the period of 12 months under review (1926), the following
roads, streets, and courts have been under survey (wholly or in part),
the total numbers of houses being given in brackets after the name of
each road, street, and court :
Bishop's Ward.
VVaxwell Terrace (16).
Prince's Ward.
Andersons Walk (19), Auckland Street (50), Burnett Street
(12), Clayton Street (1), Fairford Grove (27), Goding Street
(24), Harts Cottages (5), Kennington Boad (2), Pheasant
Cottages (7), Tiflis Cottages (12).
Brixton Ward.
Warham Street (209).