Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Sanitary authority. | No. of houses. | No. of houses inspected. | No. of notices served. | No. of houses repaired or nuisances remedied under P.H. Act. | No. of houses repaired under Housing Act, 1930. | Underground rooms. | Overcrowding. | Houses let in lodgings. | No. of houses closed by owner. | No. of houses for the working classes. | Houses unfit for habitation. | |||||||||||||||
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lepresen-tations. | Closing orders. | Demolition orders. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
In borough. | Occupied by the working classes. | Complaints or illness. | House to house. | Under P.H. Act. | Under Housing Act. | |||||||||||||||||||||
No. illegally occupied. | No. closed or otherwise remedied | Instances found. | No. remedied. | No. on register. | No. of inspections. | Erected during year. | In course of erection. | No. made. | No. of houses. | No. made. | No. determined. | No. made. | No. of houses demolished. | |||||||||||||
Intimation. | Statutory. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
In pursuance of orders. | Voluntarily. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Note.—In many cases, it has been impossible to take effective action in the matter of overcrowding owing to the shortage of houses.
Prosecutions—Houses let in lodgings: Battersea, 1; Bethnal Green, 3; Holborn, 1; Islington, 15; Kensington, 1; Paddington, 1; Poplar, 3; St. Pancras, 3; Stepney, 3.
Overcrowding—Hammersmith 2; Kensington, 2.
Housing Acts.—A full account of the action taken under the various Housing Acts will be found in Volume II of the Annual Report of the Council, 1932;