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under the provisions of the Housing and Town
Planning Act is of such importance that I venture
to direct your particular attention to a return set out
in the last appendix T to this report.
A total of 382 houses specially inspected and
dealt with under Section 15, within a few months of
the new Act coming into force, does not afford much
comfort to those persons desirous of suggesting that
the local authorities are slow in taking advantage of
the powers given to them. The figures and details
of the present and past years work are sufficient, so
far as this authority is concerned, to negative such a
suggestion, and to prove that both the authority and
its officers are active and aggressive in enforcing the
various Acts of Parliament entrusted to them.
WOLVERLEY STREET AREA.
But for the fact that silence may have led to
equivocal suggestions, either now or on some future
occasion, I, for my part, should have been quite content
to deal with this matter in the manner it, in my
judgment, merits. Apart from my view of the proceedings—in
so far as they purport to cast a stigma
upon the Public Health Department of this Boroughthere
is a duty to be performed.
Certain of your officers have been responsible for
the proper carrying out of routine duties in this
district, and it appears to me to be a matter of mere
elementary justice to those officers that it should be
recorded once for all they have done their duty