[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, Brewery Street, Poplar. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10, Wharf Street, Poplar. 1, 2, 3, 5, 0, 7, 8, and 9, Leather Street, Poplar. The first house on the list has been closed, the next thirteen have been repaired or reconstructed, and proceedings to obtain closing orders for the rest are now pending before the local magistrates. In addition to these, 170 houses have been repaired or cleansed without recourse to the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts. Having already dealt at some length in previous reports with the difficulties of the so-called housing problem, as they present themselves in Nottingham and other like places at the present time, I shall here give only a short account of tentative measures recently adopted in this department for securing an improvement in the condition of dirty houses and households. Two of the newly appointed inspectors have been detailed to make house-to-house visitation in certain poor neighbourhoods, in order to obtain definite information respecting the conditions of the house interiors. Houses absolutely unfit for habitation are certified (after inspection) by myself, forthwith; but, in the case of those which are simply filthy or otherwise insanitary for lack of cleansing or decent maintenance, a notice is served on owner or tenant according to the respective responsibility of either for the objectionable condition discovered, requiring the systematic “ whitewashing, cleansing or purifying” of the interior, according to the special needs of each particular case. The result of this work has up to the present been excellent. Several negligent owners and agents have come to realize the necessity of keeping