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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1919

Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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80
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS)
ACT, 1904.
Verminous Rooms.† Licensed Premises' Urinals.
Verminous Rooms.
Verminous rooms are still brought to the notice of owners upon the
"Intimations" which are followed, if necessary, by "Statutory Notices,"
more especially as there are generally other defects upon the premises,
and certainly verminous premises are "in such a state as to be a nuisance
to health," and owners, if they do not already know, are informed when
defects are being dealt with under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
that the vermin must be got rid of, otherwise the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1904, will be brought into operation.
When a notice is served for cleansing under the byelaws for houses
let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, should
the premises be verminous a special intimation to that effect is
enclosed.

Table: During the year 154 Intimation Notices were served in respect of verminous rooms, and the verminous rooms cleansed were :—

During the year 154 Intimation Notices were served in respect of verminous rooms, and the verminous rooms cleansed were :—

East Combined Division28
West Combined Division19
Poplar South Division9
Bromley North Division12
Bromley Central Division11
Bow East Division29
Bow West Division26
Houses Let in Lodgings20

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Two summonses were applied for. (See Police Court Proceedings,
pages 95 and 96).
†For the Cleansing of Verminous Persons, see pages 58-60.