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Your Committee took this representation into consideration,
and resolved that the Clerk to the Vestry should serve notices, in
accordance with the Act, upon the owner, to put the premises into
habitable condition forthwith; failing which, that immediate steps
be taken to obtain orders for closing, and, if necessary, demolishing
the premises.
The necessary notices were served by registered letter upon the
agent to the property on the 21st of September.
On the 27th of September summonses were applied for at the
North London Police Court; and on the 5th of October the summonses
were heard, and orders granted to close the twenty-four
cottages as unfit for human habitation.
On the 12th of October notices to quit the premises were served
upon the tenants. Sufficient time was allowed the tenants to find
suitable lodgings, and a few weeks after the cottages were vacated,
and the owner began the work of demolition. At this time the site
is cleared.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
Under the provisions of the above Act nearly three thousand
nuisances were abated during the year. Most of these were abated
on a preliminary notice only, a statutory notice being required for
a less number, and in a small number of instances legal proceedings
were instituted as a last means. The number of summonses was
61, of which 14 were withdrawn, the necessary work having been
done at the time of hearing. Magistrates' orders were obtained in
the remaining 47 cases, with costs against the defendants.
Infectious disease was not so prevalent in 1894 as in the
previous year, yet 2,088 cases were certified by the Medical
Practitioners of the districts. The houses in which these cases
occurred were all inspected, and the nuisances found were abated.
The number of rooms cleansed, articles disinfected and destroyed,
is set out in the tables. Accommodation in accordance with Sec.
60 (4) was provided for the inmates of two houses, while their
rooms were being disinfected. The rooms and articles cleansed
and disinfected are set out in the tables.