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HOUSING.
The special house-to-house inspection of the dwelling houses in the Borough
which was in progress during the year is referred to elsewhere (pp. 19, 69 and 70). The
scheme for the improvement of the Ware Street area referred to in former reports was
approved by the Ministry of Health, the order made by the Minister confirming same
under Part I of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, being dated 29th
June, 1922. It is understood that the London County Council now have the matter
in hand. The condition of a good deal of the property on the area is very bad.
Active steps to give effect to the scheme with as little delay as possible therefore arc
an urgent necessity.
Early in the year some 25 flats in Teale Street were completed and came into
occupation. Eight houses, numbered 1, 2,15,16,17,18, 19 and 20, Seabright Gardens,
and 1 and 2, Teale Court were demolished during the year to make way for some
30 more flats which were in course of erection at the end of the year. No. 24, Ware
Street was closed by the owner upon receipt of a Statutory Notice under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, the premises being in a very dirty and dilapidated
condition. It was dealt with and subsequently relet for occupation. No. 7 Ware
Street was closed by order of the Magistrate. No. 56, Britannia Street, an eightroomed
house, was closed and subsequently demolished as a dangerous structure.
The houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family
on the register at the end of the year numbered 295, some 36 being struck off on
revision. Sonic 1,623 visits of inspection were made in connection with them which
were associated with the service of 339 intimation and 88 statutory notices.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
The number of workshops, exclusive of bakehouses, on the register at the end
of the year was 1,460. Of these 180 had been added, 144 having been removed.
A classification of the workshops registered is contained in the summary of proceedings
under the Act which is appended. Some 2,811 visits of inspection were made
in connection with workshops and 890 to factories.
Six communications were received from the factory inspectors relative to the
establishment of 62 new workshops in the Borough. As the result of inspection 45
were found in a satisfactory condition, and 4 were not in use. With regard to the
remainder sanitary notices were necessary ; in 4 instances for cleansing, one on account
of insufficient ventilation to w.c., 1 for an additional w.c., 8 on account of defective
w.c.'s, and 1 for a defective roof.
Fifty-one written intimations were received from the factory inspector relating
to insanitary conditions and infringements of the law as to public health in connection
with 25 factories and 26 workshops. The chief insanitary conditions to which the
factory inspector directed attention were: dirty conditions of walls and ceilings
in 38, defective and insufficient w.c. accommodation in 11, absence of proper ventila-