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HOUSE PROPERTY INSPECTIONS, etc.
A summary of the sanitary work done during the year will be
found in Table No. 16. The total number of premises inspected was
4,357, whilst re-inspections, calls, services of notices, etc., amounted
to 12,435. The number of preliminary notices or " intimations "
served during the year was 1,601, whilst the number of " statutory
notices " served was 100, and in only one case was it necessary to
take legal proceedings to enforce these orders.
Overcrowding was abated in 24 cases without having to take
legal proceedings.
Smoke Nuisances. During the year 188 observations were
made of chimneys emitting black smoke, and in 29 cases where black
smoke was emitted in such a quantity as to be a nuisance, notices were
served to abate the nuisance.
MOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The bye-laws relating to houses let in lodgings, or occupied by
members of more than one family, made by the Council pursuant to
Sec. 94 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 :—
(a) For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a
house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family, and for the separation of the
sexes in a house so let or occupied.
(b) For the registration of houses so let or occcupied.
(c) For the inspection of such houses.
(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for promoting
cleanliness and ventilation in such houses.
(e) For the cleansing and lime-washing at stated times of
the premises.
(/) For the taking of precautions in case of infectious
disease.
The number on the register is 269, the whole of which were
regularly inspected with a view to seeing that they comply with the
bylaws as regards cleanliness, overcrowding, etc.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
These premises were kept under constant supervision during the
year. The number of inspections being 251, involving 113 premises
and 160 rooms, and include hotel kitchens, restaurants, ham, beef and
pork shops, fried fish shops, coffee shops, eating houses of all kinds,
and any place where food is prepared or cooked for sale to the public
or intended for human consumption. The number of premises added