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Closing Orders under the Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
The press publicity given to the action of the Magistrate at
the North London Magistrates' Court in making Closing Orders
relating to Nos. 25, 27 and 31 Wick Road, contrary to the application
of the Council, has focused attention on but one other group
of the many difficult cases which continually confront the Public
Health Department.
The interest resulting from the publicity may have the effect
of throwing light on the legal and technical difficulties which
occur in Public Health administration in this Borough and dispel
the prevalent idea that securing the remedy of defects in property
and the abatement of nuisances is an automatic procedure by the
mere service of Notices.
The Public Health Committee is obliged to carry out the
statutory duties placed upon a sanitary authority by the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, and the Committee has
in these instances, as in all others, acted in accordance with the
Ministry of Health instructions, that every effort should be made
to keep dwellings in occupation in view of the difficulty of rehousing
tenants under present circumstances.
The main features relating to the Wick Road properties under
consideration are essentially similar:—
The premises are situated in Daley Street Compulsory
Purchase Order made by the London County Council, dated
10th February, 1939,