Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1923.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1924]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1923. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    71 house-to-house inspections should be increased, and this is only possible with our present staff of district inspectors at the risk of the neglect of other sections of their work. It would be a great advantage to have one or more special housing inspectors. Certainly, if and when the new Houses-let-in-Lodgings Bye-Laws come into force it will undoubtedly be necessary to appoint additional inspectors if the bye-laws are to be efficiently administered. Closing Orders.—No new Closing Orders were made during the year. Housing Accommodation.—The Fulham Borough Council has no housing scheme. During 1920 and 1921 much time was devoted by the Housing Com mittee to an attempt to secure suitable sites for possible housing schemes, but with no result. I think it is desirable that new members of the Council and the public in Fulham should be made aware that the Council only decided to abandon its attempt at a housing scheme after very long and mature con sideration. Endeavours were made to secure land for building purposes in several parts of the Borough, but all attempts failed for one reason or another, generally as a result of the excessive price asked for the land. As a last blow, the Ministry of Health turned down the Council's application to secure the whole or part of the Hurlingham Polo Grounds. It should be borne in mind that the available building land in Ful ham is now very limited, and in fact, the borough is already fully populated for its area. Despite the unfortunate failure of the Borough Council in this regard, considerable increase in the available housing accommodation in the borough has been made by public and private enterprise. I would refer parti cularly to the Lewis Trust Buildings in Walham Green and the War Seal Mansions in Fulham Road. The latter buildings are the result of an appeal made during the war on behalf of crippled ex-service men. The foundation was initiated by Sir Oswald Stoll in 1915,