[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Table: Overcrowding.
Overcrowding.
Tenements overcrowded
15
Rooms overcrowded
16
Occupants, total
84
Under 10
49
10 and upwards
35
Overcrowding abated—
Byre-arrangement
—
By voluntary removal
1
Under notice
2
Cases held over
12
Table: Notices Issued.
Notices Issued.
Written Intimations
808
Statutory Notices
383
By-law ,,
1,279
Notices under L.C.C. (G.P.) Acts—
Verminous rooms
98
Additional taps
—
Abolition of old dustbins
1
Table: Items of Dilapidation for which Letters were sent to the Owners (Section 3 of the HousingAct, 1925).
Items of Dilapidation for which Letters were sent to the Owners (Section 3 of the HousingAct, 1925).
Wall-plaster broken, bulging, or defective
165
Matchboarding defective
1
Wall-paper loose
6
Skirting defective
12
Doors defective or missing
39
Locks defective
65
Ceiling plaster defective
38
Ceiling paper loose
2
Floors broken or badly worn
122
Stoves defective (including fire tiles burnt away, bars broken or missing, oven plates burnt through, oven doors defective or missing, plates broken or missing)
308
Stove settings defective
7
Flues defective
4
Hearths defective
80
Chimney-pieces loose or defective (including jambs, frieze, or mantle broken, loose, or missing)
69
Cupboard doors defective or missing
82
Window-sashes defective (including sash or sash-bars broken, rotten or defective, beads missing or defective, putties defective)
84
Window-frames loose or defective (including oak sills worn or rotten)
15
Window-glass broken
213
Copper brickwork defective, furnace pan leaky, furnace door missing or defective, setting defective, flue smoky or defective
162
Steps to front entrance or area defective
12
Railing to area or area steps defective
0
Guard rails to addition roofs defective, broken or rotten
8
Rubbish or refuse in yard, washhouse, vault, area, under-basement, etc.
7
Table: HOUSING.(Ministry of Health Table.)Number of New Houses Erected During the Year.
HOUSING.
(Ministry of Health Table.)
Number of New Houses Erected During the Year.
(a) Total
6
(b) With State assistance under Housing Acts:—
(i.) By the Local Authority
Nil
(ii.) By other bodies or persons
Nil
Table: Unfit Dwelling Houses.
Unfit Dwelling Houses.
1924.
1925.
1926.
I.—Inspection.
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(1) Total number of dwelling houses inspected for housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts)
(2) Number of dwelling-houses which were inspected and recorded under the Housing Consolidated Regulations,. 1925—
(a) Houses inspected on complaint or after illness
2,108
2,373
2,531
(b) Registered tenement houses inspected
1,007
951
796
(c) Houses inspected under Housing Acts
2
1
—
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation
*2
1
—
(4) Number of dwelling-houses (exclusive of those referred to under the preceding sub-heading) found not to be in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation
II.—Remedy of Defects without Service of Notice.
Number of defective dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence of
informal action by the Local Authority or their officers
