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West Ham 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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whole of the sewage of West Ham, which had hitherto passed into
the Thames and into Bow Creek, began to be delivered into the
Metropolitan system to be henceforward treated at the Northern
Outfall—an undoubted gain to the public health of the Borough.
Housing of the Working Classes Act. Under Part II
of this Act, I represented the under-mentioned houses as being unfit
for human habitation, and your Council ordered proceedings to be
taken in each case with the result shown below:—
Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Lea Street, Stratford Rendered fit.
Nos. 14 and 15, Abbey Road, „ Closed by owners.
Nos 1, 3, 5, Marshgate Lane, „ Rendered fit.
Under Part III of the Act, with a view to the demolition and
re-erection of houses on the Channelsea Estate, the Council obtained
an Order of Quarter Sessions authorizing the closing of the roads upon
this estate, and also obtained from the Local Government Board
sanction of a loan for 40 years, of the sum of £29,020, for the building
of 59 houses under the Act.

During the year the Council applied to the Public Works Loan Commissioners for the under-mentioned sums:—

Site.Object of LoanAmount.
Bethell AvenueLand£1,178
Bethell AvenueHouses10,798
Corporation Street and EveRoad Land5,950
Corporation StreetHouses23,927
Invicta and Rendel RoadsLand2,273
Manor RoadLand11,750
Temple Mill LaneLand4,550
£60,426

Sanitary Inspection.—The general work of the Inspectors
of Nuisances is necessarily shown in the various tables at the end
of this report, where also will he seen the actual houses inspected. The