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HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.
HOUSING, TOWN PLANNING, ETC., ACT, 1909.
House-to-House Inspections.
These inspections are necessary under Section 17 of the Housing,
Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, and under Regulations issued,
as an Order, on September 2nd, 1910, with respect to the method
in which such house-to-house inspections of the district are to be
made and records kept. During 1914, the Medical Officer of
Health, as required by Article 1 of the Regulations or Order,
prepared the following lists of dwelling houses, the early inspection
of which was, in his opinion, desirable:—
Marsh—Cornwall Road, Gilberts' Court.
Bishop's—Nil.
Prince's—Bonnington Square, Carraun Road, Durham Street
Glasshouse Street, Montford Place, Newburn Street,
Orsett Street.
Vauxhall—Hemans Street, Old South Lambeth Road.
Stockwell—Acre Lane, Fenwick Place.
Brixton—Ann's Place, Clark's Row, Ingleborough Street.
Heme Hill—Northway Road.
Tulse Hill-—Branksome Road, Glenelg Road.
Norwood—Jaffary Place, Rommany Road, Victoria Place.
A total number of 358 houses have been systematically
inspected during 1914, and in 9, i.e., 2.5 per cent., a result has
been obtained from the test applied to the drains. A total of
723 other nuisances were found to exist in 279 houses [i.e., 77.9
per cent. of the total houses inspected) but many were of a trifling
nature and not in any sense dangerous to the health of the inmates
of the houses concerned. In 79, i.e., 22.1 per cent., no nuisances
were found on inspection.