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

  • Hackney (London, England). Council
Date:
[1957]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    42 SECTION 12 (Power to make a closing order as to part of a building), Closing orders were made in respect of the following parts of premises, which were all underground rooms. 29 Alconbury Road - basement front room, 8A Amhurst Park basement front and back (west) rooms and front and back (east) rooms, 20 Chatham Place - basement front and back rooms, 20 Clapton Passage - basement front and back rooms, back addition room and scullery, 11 Clapton Way - basement front and back rooms and scullery, 87 De Beauvoir Road - basement front, middle and back rooms. 44 Foul den Road - basement front room. 22 Inver Road basement back room. 142 King Edward's Road - basement front and back rooms. 393 Kingsland Road - basement front and back rooms. 94 Mortimer Road - basement front and back rooms. 57 Newick Road - basement back room. 9A Rectory Road - basement front and back rooms. 126 Stamford Hill - basement front and back (north and south) rooms. 7 Sutton Place basement front and back rooms. In lieu of making closing orders, undertakings as indicated were accepted in respect of parts of premises as follows (a) to render fit for human habitation: - 132 Richmond Road basement front and back rooms and scullery. (Rooms subsequently made fit and undertaking cancelled). 31 Warneford Street - basement front and back rooms. (b) Not to be used for human habitation:- 41 Downs Road basement front and back (east and west) rooms. In the case of 55 Hertford Road, the owner carried out the work necessary to render the ground floor back room and scullery, first floor front and back rooms and top floor front and back rooms fit for human habitation,, and the undertaking given in i955 was cancelled. As a result of Closing and Demolition Orders 19 families were rehoused SECTION 15 (Appeals), One notice served under Section 9 was the subject of an appeal to the County Court. The owner withdrew the appeal on terms agreed between the parties and embodied in an order of the Court, including compliance with the Council's notice as modified (certain works having been done) and payment to the Council of the sum of 16 guineas towards the costs incurred. Part III (Slum Clearance) SECTION 25 (Power to declare an area to be a clearance area). The joint proposals of the London Osunty Council and the Borough Council on the programme of slum clearance to be carried out in the quinquennium 1956-60 submitted to the Minister in 1955 in accordance with the
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