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Lambeth 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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33.Stagnant water:accumulation28
34. Underground rooms : occupied as a dwelling9
35. Urinal: foul15

In addition, the district sanitary inspectors carried out during
1938 routine duties connected with the inspection of unsound and
unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses, slaughterhouses,
dairies, milk shops and milk stores, ice-creameries, the
market thoroughfares, outside urinals of public-houses, smoke
abatement, the men's public conveniences, factories wherein males
are employed, common lodging-houses, offensive trades, houses let
in lodgings, refuse and manure depots, etc.
A great number of visits have been paid by the inspectors in
connexion with all the premises in which infectious diseases are
reported to have occurred. The opportunity afforded by such
official notifications is taken for an inspection of the sanitary state
of the property together with a test of the drains.
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920-38.
During the year 9 inspections were made and 9 certificates
granted. It should be noted that since the 1933 Act a certificate,
when applied for in accordance with the provisions of the Acts, must
be granted. The administrative latitude previously permissible is
now therefore curtailed.
Action taken under section 224, Public Health
(London) Act, 1936.
In eight cases only was it necessary to obtain a magistrate's
order under this section. Several other old people were induced to
enter the London county council hospital without the need for
application for orders.