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

  • Stepney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1952?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    29. Defence Regulation 68 C.A. (Use of living accommodation for business -purposes). 73 investigations of premises were made for possible contravention of this Regulation regarding Change of User, •which involved 140 visits by the inspectors. Preferential Housing on Health Grounds. Of the 119 cases investigated, 59 recommended for rehousing : 7 to the London County Council and 52 to the Borough Cornell. Applications for Rehousing. At the end of the year, there were 4,550 applications for rehousing on the Housing Manager's register (an Increase of 900 over 1950), including 219 tenants of Council dwellings and 503 licencees of requisitioned premises. Temporary Hutments. 324 hutments owned by the Borough Council remained at the end of the year. 19 were recommended for demolition because of structural deterioration. Requisitioned Properties. The number of dwellings under requisition by the Borough Council at the end of the year was 1,886, involving 2,613 lettings, and 7 dwellings were recommended to the Housing Manager f.or de-reculsitioning for. various reasons, and 20 basement flats (35 rooms) which did not comply with the regulations were recommended for closure New Housing. This year saw the commencement of the erection of the second portion of the Borough Council's Bancroft Estate, The London County Council's Ocean Estate, too, began to take shape and the first 8-storey block of flats in the Borough was completed. Heretofore the Borough has had only 5-storey flats, and this new feature of Stepney life will be a matter of some interest as to its success or otherwise. Another innovation was the construction of a 2-storey building on.this Estate, comprising a communal laundry on the ground floor and a community hall above. During the year 378 new dwellings were completed in the Borough, 80 flats and 35 houses by the Borough Council and 263 flats by the London County Council, At the end of the year, new permanent dwe]lings completed in the Borough since