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Brentford and Chiswick 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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Council Owned Houses (Certified unfit by the Medical Officer of Health)
Nos 45-53 (odd numbers) Ealing Road, Brentford.
Four families (13 persons) were rehoused by the Council, leaving one family
still to be rehoused at the end of the year.
No, 35 Wellesley Road, Chiswick,
Basements of Nos 7, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 21 Oxford Road North, Chiswick.
There premises were certified by the Medical Officer on Health on 26th May,
1961 to be unfit. The 9 families (28 persons) were rehoused by the Council
and the houses were demolished.
During the year under review, the following 11 houses were included in
Official Representations made to the Council as being unfit for human habitation
and were declared Clearance Areas, as under:-
Pottery Road No. 1 Clearance Area, 1960
Pottery Road No. 1 Compulsory Purchase Order, 1961
Nos. 9-12 (consecutive numbers) Pottery Road.
Annandale Road No 1 Clearance Area, 1961
Nos. 32 and 34 Annandale Road, Chiswick,,
Annandale Road No. 2 Clearance Area, 1961
Nos. 38-46 (even numbers) Annandale Road, Chiswick.
Annandale Road No. 1 Compulsory Purchase Order, 1961
Nos. 32-46 (even numbers) Annandale Road, Chiswick.
Included in this Order is No. 36 Annandale Road as lands outside the
Clearance Area.
Individual Unfit Houses
No 48 Reckitt Road, Chiswick.
The two families (9 persons) occupying this house (in respect of which a
Compulsory Purchase Order was confirmed last year) were rehoused by the Council
during the year.
The following houses were dealt with under Section 16 of the Housing Act,
1957, during the year.
Nos. 22a, 24 and 26 Sutton Lane, Chiswick.
The owners of these houses gave the Council an undertaking to demolish
upon the rehousing of the occupiers. Two of the houses were unoccupied and the
family (5 persons) occupying the third house was rehoused by the Council.
Nos. 154, 155 and 156 High Street, Brentford,
No. 161b High Street, Brentford,
No. 335 High Street, Brentford,
No. 58 The Ham, Brentford.
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