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HOUSE PROPERTY INSPECTIONS, etc.
A summary of the sanitary work done during the year will be
found in Table No. 27. The total number of premises inspected was
3,463, whilst re-inspections, calls, services of notices, etc., amounted
to 11,245. The number of preliminary notices or "intimations"
served during the year was 1,573, whilst the number of "statutory
notices" served was 60, and in only one case was it necessary to
take legal proceedings to enforce these orders.
Overcrowding was abated in 25 cases without having to
take legal proceedings.
Smoke Nuisances. During the year 92 observations
were made, and in 16 cases where black smoke was emitted in such a
quantity as to be a nuisance, notices were served to abate the nuisance.
HOUSES 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 occupied.
(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.
(f) 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
byelaws as regards cleanliness, overcrowding, etc.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
These premises were periodically inspected during the year.
The number of inspections were 282, involving 106 premises and
226 rooms. The premises include hotel kitchens, restaurants, coffeeshops
and eating-houses of various kinds, fried-fish shops, eel-pie
shops, oyster bars, ham, beef and pork shops, sausage-making and
meat-chopping premises, and any place where food is cooked or
prepared for sale to the public, or intended for human consumption.