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HOUSE-TO-HOUSE INSPECTION.
House-to-house inspection on a considerable scale was carried out during the
year by the Sanitary Inspectors in their respective districts. Attention was
especially paid to those streets which appeared more particularly to require such
inspection. Altogether 2,162 houses situate in 97 streets, including blocks of
artizans' dwellings as streets, were inspected and sanitary notices were served in
connection with 1,126 of these houses. In the great majority, however, the
defects found were of minor importance.
HOUSES CLOSED.
The following houses were closed upon the service of sanitary notices, either
on account of being unfit for habitation or in order to allow the works necessary
to put them in a satisfactory sanitary condition to be carried out in a proper and
efficient manner which would have been difficult or impossible whilst the houses
were occupied:—
Branch Place, No.22.
Britannia Street, No.120.
Clifton Street, No.11.
Cavendish Street, Nos.15 and 50.
Drysdale Street, Nos.21, 23, 25, 27
and 29.
Essex Place, Nos.9, 13, 20, 22 and 24
Rivington Street, No.12.
Windsor Terrace, No.5.
Sylvia Street, Nos.8 and 12.
The house in Branch Place contains seven rooms and scullery. It was dirty
and dilapidated and the sanitary arrangements generally were defective. It was
closed upon the service on the owner of a statutory notice under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891. It was subsequently dealt with and re-let for
occupation.
The house in Britannia Street, containing eight rooms with scullery, was dirty
and overcrowded. It was closed by the owner on receipt of a sanitary notice from
Inspector Wright, under whom it was subsequently dealt with.
With regard to No. 15, Cavendish Street, containing six rooms and scullery,
a magistrate's order was obtained against the owner for not complying with a
statutory notice, the premises being generally dirty and dilapidated, the roof being
defective and also the sanitary arrangements. The owner closed the house which
remained closed at the end of the year.
No. 50, Cavendish Street, containing seven rooms and a scullery, was generally
dirty and dilapidated and the roof was also defective. It was closed by the owner
on the service of a statutory notice under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
and remained closed at the end of the year.