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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS
of the
Walthamstow Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you the report of work done
through my department during the year 1902.
Inspection has been made of 3,444 houses, and in 1,877 of them
works of sanitary improvement have been effected under my
supervision.
House to house inspection has been made in the following roads,
viz.—Fulbourn, Spencer, Chaucer, Macdonald, Garner, Hazlewood,
Glenthorne, Haroldstone, Brunner, Lennox, Boston, Longfellow,
Chelmsford, Stafford and Colchester Roads, Lennox Avenue and South
Grove. In these roads, some being in the newer and most in the
older parts of the district, the results of the inspections may be
summarised as follows:—Insanitary conditions that could be described
as at all serious, were discovered in slightly over 3 per cent, of them;
overcrowding was discovered in four instances. The number of families
averaged T58 per house, with an average of 3.5 rooms per family of
4 persons, and 6.4 persons per house as compared with the census
returns of 5,8 persons per house for the whole district.
Drainage.—The reconstruction and repair of house drains number,
of the former, 212, and of the latter, 71, including the following blocks
of premises:—
6, 8 and 10, Albert Road.
16 and 18, Arkley Road.
21, 23 and 25, Arkley Road.
68 and 70, Albert Road.
68 and 70, Beaconsfield Road.
47 and 49, Buxton Road.
4 to 20, College Place.
2 to 12, Church Terrace.
77 to 87, Collard Road.
7 to 11, Clarkson Road.
4 and 6, Cottenham Road.
10, 12 and 14, Essex Grove.
69, 71 and 73, Eden Road.
56 and 58, Forest Road.
2 to 32, Fairlight Road.
3 and 4, Gamuel Road.
27 and 29, Gladstone Road.
53 and 55, Granville Road.
38 to 42, Harvey Park Road.
42 and 44, Hazlewood Road.