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has been disconnected, trapped and amended in 171 cases;
similarly 43 stack pipes have been disconnected, trapped and
amended; other nuisances, principally dilapidations and want of
undertloor ventilation, have also been attended to in 48 cases.
During the year 94 houses in this district have been inspected
under the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, the records
of such properties being duly filed. Of this number, nuisances
or defects were found in 35 cases, concerning which houses
the necessary notices under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, were served. Of these 35 houses thus dealt with,
in 22 cases the notices were satisfactorily complied with, leaving
13 cases still in hand or otherwise undisposed of at the end of the
year.
Housing and Town Planning Act.
Number of houses inspected and of which records were made
during 1915, 94.
Number of houses inspected in respect of which notices were
served, 35.
Number of houses in respect of which notices were served in 1914,
from inspections in previous year, 50.
Number of houses inspected in respect of which landlords elected
to close instead of complying with the notices. Nil.
Number of houses inspected in respect of which notices were satisfactorily
complied with, 22.
Number of houses in respect of which notices remained undisposed
of at 1st January, 191G, 13.
Number of houses in respect of which closing orders were made
by the Magistrate, nil.
Number of houses in respect of which closing orders were determined,
nil.
Number of houses made fit for human habitation, 22. None were
closed, or demolished voluntarily without the issue of a
closing order.