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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stepney 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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. Table 16. HOUSING STATISTICS
| I. Inspection of dwelling-houses during the year:- | |
| (l)(a) Dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) | 5,360 |
| (b) Inspections made for the purpose | 13,556 |
| (2)(a) Dwelling-houses inspected and recorded under Housing Consolidated Regulations, 1925 | 1,074 |
| (b) Inspections made for the purpose | 1,103 |
| (3) Dwelling-houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human | 12 |
| (4) Dwelling-houses found not to be in all respects reasonably fit for habitation | 1,815 |
| II. Remedy of defects during the year without service of formal notices:- | |
| Dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence of informal action by the local authority or their | 1,258 |
| III, Action under statutory powers during the year:- | |
| (a) Proceedings under Sections 9, 10 and 12 of Housing Act, 1957 - | |
| Dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were | Nil |
| (b) Proceedings under Public Health Acts - | |
| (l) Dwelling-houses in respect of which notices were served requiring defects to be remedied | 557 |
| (2) Dwelling-houses in which defects were remedied after service of formal notices - | |
| 528 | |
| (ii) By local authority in default of owners | 29 |