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Report of the Medical Officer of' Health. 141
(e) Passage off Montserrat Road, and in rear of 97-109,
High Street, Putney, paved.
(f) Passage off Disraeli Road in rear of 137-151, High
Street, Putney, paved.
(g) With reference to the passage at the rear of 152-180,
Streatham High Road, as no work was being done
to abate the nuisance proceedings were taken
against the owners, but before the hearing of the
summonses work was begun and this will shortly be
satisfactorily carried out.
(h) Road between 205 and 207, Brixton Hill. The condition
of this road has been the cause of several complaints
by the occupiers of houses in Holmwood
Gardens, and many difficulties have arisen with
respect to ownership and consequent responsibility
as to the persons liable to abate the nuisance.
A satisfactory settlement has, however, now
been arrived at, and I anticipate that in the spring of
the current year the road will be properly made up
and the nuisance abated.
(i) Field's Alley, Wandsworth, is still in hand, but the
necessary paving has not been done, owing chiefly to
change of ownership. This also will be paved satisfactorily
during the current year.
(k) With regard to land at the rear of Blackshaw Road,
owing to the difficulty of ascertaining the owners as
defined by the Public Health Act, nothing has been
done, but as soon as the actual owners are found the
necessary notices will be served.
(7.) In consequence of complaints from the tenants of the houses
in Floss Street, Putney, I made an inspection of them on the
4th May, 1908, and reported to the Committee that, in my
opinion, the basement tenements were at that time unfit for
habitation in consequence of an accumulation of water in the