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Your Council decided to adopt the whole of the
advice contained in the foregoing report, and to inform
the London County Council of your decision. It may
he observed from this report how the division of the
duties of the Sanitary Inspectors steadily increases the
amount of work carried on in each succeeding year.
SUMMONSES ORDERED.
During last year, your Council and the Public
Health Committee gave authority for 55 summonses to
be taken out against persons for having failed to comply
with the requirements of notices which bad been served.
In most cases before summonses were issued a letter
was written to the person in default, informing him that
the Public Health Committee had ordered the summons,
and asking him if he was willing to give an undertaking
in writing that he would forthwith comply with the
notice which had been served. In many instances the
undertaking was at once given, and it was not found
to be necessary to apply for a summons. It has been
the object of the department, as heretofore, to take out
as few summonses as possible, but at the same time in no
instance to allow anyone to defy the authority of your
Council.
During last year 30 summonses were taken out
through the Public Health Department. The following
is a list of the premises in reference to which summonses
were issued, with a statement as to the nature of the
complaint and the result of the proceedings:—