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The 43 instances where matters needed attention included
33 cases where the premises generally, or kitchen and
scullery particularly, needed cleansing and lime-washing, 1
requiring new drainage, and 4 requiring the w.c. apparatus
attending to, leaving 5 other minor defects.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts. No applications
were received during the year for certificates under these
Acts.
Housing of the Working Classes. Premises have been
found to be overcrowded in 29 cases, which have all been
abated, and in 5 cases the illegal use of underground rooms
has been discontinued. Three hundred and fifty-six houses
have been generally repaired; 242 premises have been
cleansed, limewashed, and repaired; 112 have been improved
as regards their ventilation; 208 premises have had the walls
and ceilings cleansed throughout, and 286 premises have been
partially cleansed; leaky house roofs and gutters have been
repaired in 323 cases; nuisances from dampness have been
abated in 201 cases; dampness of walls have been remedied
in 155 cases; direct connection between the internal sanitary
fittings of houses and the drain have been disconnected,
trapped, and amended in 301 cases; similarly 107 stack pipes
have been disconnected, trapped, and amended; 16 houses
have been abolished as unfit for habitation; 45 have been
closed through non-compliance with notices; and other
nuisances, principally of dilapidations and want of underfloor
ventilation have also been attended to in 51 cases.
Definite proceedings have been taken under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, for the closing of two properties,
but the summonses were withdrawn on the payment of costs
by the defendant, the houses being put into thorough repair
by him; in 45 instances our requirements under notices
to abate nuisances arising on such properties have been of
such an extensive character that the owners have themselves