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71
Water Certificates issued* 85
Revenue Act Certificates dealt with 8
Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) 4535
Sanitary Works completed 5748
Samples of Food and Drugs taken 2000
Notices—
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or Intimation
5841 and Statutory 3942) 9783
Metropolis Local Management Acts 10
Sanitary Nuisances abated—
(a) Structural 7901
(b) Non-Structural 3615
Summonses issued—
Public Health Act† 10
Food and Drugs Acts‡ 11
Margarine Act§ 1
N.B.—In addition to the above, the District Sanitary Inspectors
carried out during 1923 routine duties connected with the inspecting
of unsound and unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses,
slaughter-houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores,
ice-creameries, the market thoroughfares, outside urinals of publichouses,
smoke, the male public conveniences, factories and workshops,
and work-places wherein males are employed, common
lodging-houses, offensive trades, effluvium nuisances, houses let in
lodgings, exempted tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and manure
depots, etc. No new houses were registered under the by-laws for
houses let in lodgings. Routine house-to-house inspections were
carried out under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Acts, by the
newly-appointed Housing Sanitary Inspectors, who commenced
their duties on May 1st, 1920 (vide Section on Housing). Extra
* Including 105 houses (2 being in blocks), and 115 tenements
† 9 convictions and 1 summons withdrawn.
‡ 4 convictions, 6 summonses dismissed, and 1 summons withdrawn.
§ 1 conviction (non-labelling).