[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of] page 121

Lambeth 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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Table: Housing of the Working Classes Act.DETAILS OF HOUSES CONDEMNED IN LAMBETH DURING 1896.

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DETAILS OF HOUSES CONDEMNED IN LAMBETH DURING 1896.

Date of representation of M.O.H. to, and of resolution of, Sanitary Authority.	Address of Premises.	No. of Houses.	Date of Service of Notices.	Result.	Remarks.
Dec. 12th, 1895.	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Fountain Court	9	Jan. 2nd, 1896.	25 closed by order of the Magistrate on July 29th, 1896, and 10/- per tenant allowed as compensation. Two closed voluntarily.	The whole site was suggested by the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry on October 15th, 1896, as an open space in such a congested district, and for a playground for children, who would be thus drawn from dangerous crowded thoroughfares; whilst additional breathing space would be useful for this particular district (the Inner Wards) of Lambeth.
	3. 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Francis Court	11
	The Cottage, Francis Street	1
	1, 2, 3. 4, 5, 6 Paved Court, Lambeth Walk	6
Feb. 20th, 1896.	11, 13, 15, 17, 19, Cornwall Read, Brixton Hill	5	No Notices served	Voluntarily put into proper order and condition to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health.	Premises dirty, damp, and dilapidated, together with defective drams and other sanitary defects.
Feb. 20th, 1896.	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Commercial Buildings, Belvedere Road	10	March 6th, 1896.	Closed voluntarily as houses for human habitation, and converted into storage places and stables.	Defective drains and other sanitary defects, and the premises are dark, dirty, and damp; whilst the position of the houses is such as to make it practically impossible to render them fit for human habitation, sunlight rarely gaining access to the rooms, and there being no through ventilation, the houses having been built originally within the recesses of the archways of Waterloo Bridge.