[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark].

  • St. George the Martyr (Southwark, London, England). Parish Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    27 Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1692. Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 Summary, of Representation under Part II., made by the Medical Officer of Health during the Year, 1892. Premises. Date of Official Representation. Result. 1 to 13 Spiller's Court, Webber Row. March 15th. Closed with costs; mostly demolihed. Block I.—Nos. 1 to 28, Artizans' Buildings, Gun Street, Friar Street. July 5th. After four adjournments, closing orders granted, which lay (in the interest of the unfortunate tenant) in the Magistrate's office, pending the carrying out of the following requirements which were accom plished:- Ventilating pipes (4) and drains remedied; duct shoots and doors repaired; water-cisterns on roofs cleansed, covered, and re moved from close proximity to the soil ventilating pipes; improved water-supply provided; general repairs and cleansing done; owner fined £10 and £1 1s. costs in each case, or, in default of distress, one month's imprisonment for each offence. Block ii.—Nos. 1 to 28, Artizans' Buildings, Gun Street, Friar Street. July 5th. 1, 2, 3, and 4, John's Place, Webber Row. July 5th. Closed, with costs; since demolished. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Emmett's Buildings. December. Closed, with costs. 44, Webber Row. December. Closed, with costs. 1 to 11, Kell Street, Borough Road. December. Closed, with costs. Summary. enements respecting which representations have been made 110 ???habitants epresentations made respecting the above 14 Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890, S. 26 (2), and S. 1. Tenement property, occupied by about 42-4 families, has been examined during ???e latter seven months of 1892, at the request of the respective owners, with ie view of obtaining the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health, by which ???cemption from inhabited house duty can be claimed under the provisions of above ???ictions. A large amount of time was required for the necessary examination of the veilings before the certificates could be either given or refused. The Act of 1890 states that the house before exemption from duty aimed, must be so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation milies or persons inhabiting it, and that due provision is mat ???quirements; and the Act of 1891, stipulates that the annual value of each ???eparate dwelling within the house shall not amount to $20. The standard of sanitary requirements was only reached to the case of one. ???use, containing five tenements, for which a certiticate given by me.