Annual report of the Council, 1920. Vol. III. Public Health page 35

London County Council 1920

Annual report of the Council, 1920. Vol. III. Public Health

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progress under Part III, are White Hart Lane estate, Tottenham, of about 164 acres providing for the
housing of 3,638 persons, the Norbury estate where 60 houses were completed and 150 in course of erection
at the end of the year, and old Oak Estate, Hammersmith, with an area of 46½ acres and providing for
the housing of 2,231 persons. At this estate 183 houses were completed and 257 in course of erection at
the end of December, 1920.
Section 26 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919, requires the Council to make by-laws
for regulating houses let in lodgings, such by-laws to be enforced by the councils of the several metropolitan
boroughs, with the exception of those by-laws in the series which deal with securing stability
and prevention of and safety from fire, which will be made and enforced by the Council.
Draft by-laws were in due course prepared by the Council and submitted to the borough councils
for their observations, and the Council is at the present time in correspondence with the Minister of
Health on the subject
From the date on which the Housing (Additional Powers) Act, 1919, came into operation until
31st December, 1920, 537 applications under Section 6 (Prohibition of demolition or change of use of
dwelling nouses) have been received. Of these 330 were found not to be affected by the section, the properties
being either unsuitable without reconstruction for being renderea fit for human habitation, or,
being in use on 3rd December otherwise than as dwelling houses. In 110 cases permission to demolish,
or to use the premises for purposes other than as dwellings was refused. In 94 cases demolition, or change
of use. was authorised.
By-laws as to
houses let in
lodgings.
Building
oontrol.

Table: Tuble showing the number of houses in each borough in 1920; the number repaired under Section 28 of the Act of 1919; certain other particulars as to conditions in 1920 ; and the action taken by the metropolitan borough councils under the provisions of Section 17 of the Housing and Town Planning Act with regard to the making of representations and closing orders —the figures for the years 1914, 1915 to 1918, inclusive, and 1919, are included for comparison.

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Tuble showing the number of houses in each borough in 1920; the number repaired under Section 28 of the Act of 1919; certain other particulars as to conditions in 1920 ; and the action taken by the metropolitan borough councils under the provisions of Section 17 of the Housing and Town Planning Act with regard to the making of representations and closing orders —the figures for the years 1914, 1915 to 1918, inclusive, and 1919, are included for comparison.

Metropolitan borough.	No. of houses.			No. of houses for the working classes.		No. of representations.				No. of closing orders.				No. of houses demolished.
	In borough.	Inhabited by working classes.	Repaired by local authority.	Erected	In course of erection.	No. of representations.				No. of closing orders.				No. of houses demolished.
	1920.	1920.	1920.	1920.	1920.	1914.	1915-18.	1919.	1920.	1914.	1915-18.	1919.	1920.	1914.	1915-18.	1919.	1920.
Battersea	26,118	23,246	17	9	—	185	—	1	11	38	—	—	11	_	_	_	_
Bermondsey	19,140	18,850	77	—	30	—	—	13	—	—	—	46	—	36	—	—	—
Bethnal Green	14,709	—	—	—	1	31	34	—	5	25	19	—	—	—	2	—	—
Camberwell	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3
Chelsea	—	—	2	—	—	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	8	—	—
Deptford	—	—	—	—	—	5	7	1	—	5	7	—	—	6	2	—	—
Finsbury	17,480tenements	16,700	—	—	—	—	17	—	—	—	17	—
Fulham	26,142	80%	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—
Greenwich	16,302	—	—	2	192	193	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Hackney	34,676	13,000	—	—	80	—	29	—	—	—	34	—	—	—	—	—	—
Hammersmith	21,621	—	—	296	150	37	26	—	—	6	38	—	1	—	25	—	—
Hampstead	12,091	1,833	—	—	—	9	11	6	16	9	11	6	14	5	—	—	10
Holborn	9,416	9,021	—	—	—	2	3	1	1	2	1	1	1	—	—	—	—
Islington	—	2 3rd	—	47	325	21	8	2	1	1	8	—	1	6	1	—	—
Kensington	23,900	5,690	1	—	62	13	9	—	—	3	9	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lambeth	44,123	33,093	—	—	230	7	—	38	17	7	—	—	17	7	—	—	6
Lewisham	33,500	—	—	—	93	—	9	—	—	3	19	—	—	6	3	—	—
Paddington	17,610	9,443	4	—	—	5	5	12	15	5	4	6	15	—	—	—	—
Poplar	22,472	All	1	15	96 cotts.,	10	29	10	—	10	29	4	—	2	1	—	—
Poplar					39 flats
St. Marylebone	21,400	7,266	—	—	—	1	16	4	—	—	15	4	—	6	—	3	—
St. Pancras	23,345	20,000	—	—	76 flats	37	37	16	—	—	44	12	—	—	—	—	—
Shoreditch	13,000	12,400	4	—	65 flats,	—	3	6	—	—	3	—	—	—	7	—	—
Shoreditch					14 cotts.
Southwark	18,310	11,956	—	—	90	—	—	4	37	—	—	—	17	—	32	—	15
Stepney	36,000	—	50	12	15	6	23	4	2	6	59	—	—	—	2	4	—
Stoke Newington	—	—	—	—	18 flats	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wandsworth	56,539	41,598	1	108	522	—	—	1		—	—	—	—	—	6	1	—
Westminster, City of	—	—	—	—	70	—	7	—	—	—	6	—	—	11	39	—	—
Woolwich	26,223	22,084	—	12	252	18	33	7	5	9	29	3	4	7	5		2

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National Health Insurance Acts—Treatment of Tuberculosis.
The annual report last ye£tr contained a brief resume of the history of the development of organised
provision for the treatment of tuberculosis in London, and, in an appendix, the results of the working of
the Council's Tuberculosis Scheme during the years 1914-9 were reviewed in considerable detail by Dr.
F. N. Kay Menzies, following a survey of the whole field which included the inspection of each of the
tuberculosis dispensaries. The report indicated that a considerable amount of effective work had been
done in spite of the adverse conditions due to the war, but that there was a considerable number of defects
which called for remedy. It is only necessary here to revert to such matters in the report as led to action
on the part of the Council.
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