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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
It has not been found necessary to take any action under this
Act as it has been found, after careful consideration and personal
inspection that the nuisances detected could all be dealt with under
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The four houses in Putney and one in Wandsworth, reported
on in 1910 under the above Act, have not been demolished, but
the former are still closed and the latter is now used as a store shed.
The tables of house-to-house inspections show, as in former
years, the name of the street, the number of houses inspected, the
number of houses in which defects were found, and the number of
families living in one, two, three, and four rooms and upwards.
The defects found are given in the Table of Sanitary Operations,
as also the number of intimation and statutory notices
served and complied with.
Underground Rooms.
The Inspection begun in 1911 of premises where such rooms
existed, was continued during 1912, but as I stated in the Report
for the former year very few have been discovered, and in the
majority of those discovered in 1912 the occupation as a sleeping
room has been discontinued.
In Clapham the streets where such rooms were chiefly found
were Wandsworth Road and Carfax Square. In several of the
houses in Wandsworth Road structural alterations have been
made so as to comply with the By-laws, while in Carfax Square
the rooms are in nearly all the cases not now used as sleeping
rooms. In eight out of 19 houses in this latter street the rooms
are still occasionally occupied as sleeping rooms, and these premises
are being kept under observation for further action if necessary.
In Putney three houses in Felsham Road had underground
rooms which were illegally occupied, but the owner carried out
structural alterations so as to comply with the By-laws.