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St Pancras 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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(b) That the results of these inspections be recorded on a case paper for
each separate house.
(c) That a model case paper containing the particulars required by the
Local Government Board be drawn up by the Medical Officer of
Health and be adopted and printed for the use of the department.
(d) That from the case papers reports be prepared periodically for the
information of the Public Health Committee, the Council, and the
Local Government Board.
HOUSING AND TOWN PLANNING ACT, 1909.
| Number of dwelling houses inspected under and for the purposes of Section 17 of the Act of 1900. | The number of dwelling-houses which on inspection were considered to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health to be unfit for human habitation: | The number of representations made with a view to the making of closing orders. | The number of closing orders made. | The number of dwelling-houses the defects in which were remedied without the making of closing orders. | The number of dwelling-houses which after the making of closing orders were put into a fit state for human habitation. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 245 | – | – | – | 245 | – |
The general character of the defects found to exist—Cleansing of rooms.
For the purpose of periodical inspection a list of Inscribed Dwellings is
also kept. This list includes—
1.— Cottages of one, two, three, or more rooms occupied by one family and
which cannot be registered, e.g. Equity Buildings.
2.— Dwellings over Stables which require periodical inspection, but cannot be
registered, e.g., Wakefield Mews.
3.—Houses in certain areas represented under the Housing of the Working
Classes Acts, some of which are registerable and some not, e.g., Chapel Grove,
and Eastnor Place areas.
4.— Tenement Houses let in separate dwellings, but in which the dwellings are
not separately assessed, or, if separately assessed, in which the dwellings do not
differ in arrangement or construction from those in an ordinary tenement
house, but which houses, it may be contended, are not registerable as a whole.
5.— Working Class Flats habitually overcrowded or kept in an insanitary
condition.
(c) Underground Dwellings.—At the end of the year there were on the
Register 435 underground rooms which had been illegally occupied as dwellings,
and have been ordered to be closed, and of which 131 inspections have been made
and 30 re-inspections after notices served. Time is allowed to the occupants
of these rooms to find rooms elsewhere, and during the time allowed the
illegallv occupied rooms are kept under observation, and the number vacated
or otherwise occupied ascertained and reported. The houses in which these
dwellings are found are added to the register of registered tenement houses.