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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1941.
Housing.
Work in connection with housing has again been on a
reduced scale, but 4,282 dwelling houses were inspected for
defects by the Sanitary Inspectors, the total number of inspections
made being 12,081. 1,648 houses were found not in all respects
reasonably fit for human habitation, and of these 282 were
rendered fit without the service of any notice.
It was necessary to serve intimation notices under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, in respect of 965 houses and in 410
houses the service of nuisance notices was necessary.
Housing Act, 1936.
No action for the clearance of insanitary areas or houses
has been initiated, as the above Act is in abeyance for the duration
of the war, but 16 houses in respect of which Demolition Orders
were made and confirmed prior to the outbreak of war were
demolished during the year. These were:-
90-110, Point Pleasant, Wandsworth—11 houses:Demolition
Orders made on 19th October, 1937.
1-5, Cowpers Row, Streatham—5 houses :-Demolition
Orders made on 18th January, 1938. These five
houses were damaged by enemy action in April,
1941, and demolished in August and September.
Eleven other houses, which I had scheduled as insanitary
but on which no official action had yet been taken, were demolished
by their owners in 1941. They were:—
Fairview Cottage, Streatham—1 house:—had been
damaged by enemy action some months prior to
demolition.
1 to 5, and 11 to 15, Factory Square, Streatham-10
houses:-demolished by the owners to allow for an
extension of the factory adjoining them.
Overcrowding.
105 dwellings were recorded as overcrowded at the end of
the year.