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Other premises where food is prepared have been inspected
on 162 occasions, and 17 were found to require attention or
improvement, which works have been carried out.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts. Applications were
received from 2 owners during the year for certificates under these
Acts, for 14 and 30 tenements respectively.
In neither case were the cases considered suitable, and
accordingly the certificates were not granted. The chief objection
at one place was that there was a lack of proper ventilation for
the room which contained a gas stove, not provided with any
hood or other means for allowing the escape of the fumes, which
fumes were found to pervade the various rooms of the tenement.
In the other case, which were recently-built London County
Council dwellings, their attention was drawn to the fact
of the totally inadequate accommodation provided for washing or
laundry purposes, such provision being almost of a dangerous
character at the present time, on account of the small floor space,
so that the garments of the person standing at the wash-tub would
be very liable to catch fire at the copper provided for boiling
purposes. Some of the bedrooms also appeared to be deficient
as far as ventilation was concerned, and very inadequate in size.
House-to-House Inspection. This inspection has been
continued more or less throughout the year, and at the present
time, the scheme adopted by the Public Health Committee for
paying one visit of inspection to all the houses occupied by
persons of the working class throughout the Borough is nearing
completion. Tables giving a resume of the results found during
the year are appended.