Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Every house in the district is called at once each week. Electrically operated vehicles are
used.
Quite 99 per cent. of the houses in the district are provided with movable receptacles.
Fixed receptacles in the older houses are rapidly decreasing in number, and during the next few
years should entirely disappear.
The disposal of house refuse is by contract. The refuse is collected by the Council and tipped
into barges on the Canal, one wharf being situated in the Harrow Road in the Metropolitan Borough
of Paddington, and the other one at Lower Place, Willesden. It is conveyed in barges down the
Canal, unloaded by the Contractor and deposited on land immediately adjoining the Canal, where
it is dealt with under the Controlled Tipping system.
The system of dumping road sweepings at given points and later collecting by carts has been
discontinued. The sweepings are now deposited in bins and conveyed in street orderly trucks to
given positions where they are emptied into motors and taken to barges.
Sanitary Inspection of the Area.
Inspections : | |
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Number of premises inspected on complaint | 2,827 |
Number of premises inspected in connection with infectious diseases | 71 |
Number of premises under periodical inspection | 2,782 |
Houses inspected from House to House (Housing Acts) | 969 |
For Certificates under the Rent Acts | 8 |
Public House Urinals | 381 |
Mews and Stables | 466 |
Miscellaneous | 239 |
Total number of inspections and re-inspections made | 26,975 |
Number of applications received for Certificates | 8 |
Number of Certificates granted... | 4 |
Notice to Inspect (Section 127, Housing Act, 1925) | 2,862 |
Cautionary or Intimation Notices Issued | 3,352 |
Number complied with | 2,646 |
Statutory Orders issued | 387 |
Number complied with | 317 |
Summonses served | 8 |
Number of convictions obtained | 7 |
Summonses withdrawn | 1 |
„ dismissed | 0 |
Number registered under Bye-laws | 0 |
Number of contraventions | 0 |
Number registered under Bye-laws | 1 |
Number of Inspections made | 20 |
Number of contraventions | 5 |
Number remedied | 5 |
Number of contraventions of Regulations | 4 |
Number remedied | 3 |
Number observed during the year | 9 |
Number of nuisances therefrom abated | 2 |
Number removed from district | 5 |
Number in district | 58 |
Number of Inspections | 171 |
Contraventions of Factory Acts | 23 |
Contraventions remedied | 19 |
Number on register | 7 |
Inspections of carcases, etc. | 344 |
Contraventions of Bye-laws | 1 |
Contraventions remedied | 1 |