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Factories, Workshops and Shops.
Inspections—
Shops 24
do. (Pharmacy
Act) 30
Factories 1,303
Inspections—contd.
Outworkers 1,087
Smoke observations 133
Intimation notices
served 32
Summonses issued -
Legal Proceedings.
During the year, legal proceedings were taken by the Council in
251 cases, for the enforcement of various Acts, by-laws, regulations,
etc., administered by the Health Department. A summary is set out
below,m and futher details will be found in the sections dealing with
the respective matters.
Public Health (London) Act. 1936 231
Food and Drugs Act, 1938 12
Public Health (Meat) Regulations. 1924 2
Housing Act, 1936 5
National Assistance Act, 1948 (Removal of
Aged and Infirm Persons) 1
251
tunes totalling £10 10s. were imposed in connection with these
proceedings, and £103 11s. costs were awarded to the Council.
Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
The provisions of this Act in regard to Nuisances continued to
afford the main means whereby the remedy of insanitary conditions
found in dwelling houses could be secured.
During the year, 3,666 Intimation, and 2,178 Statutory (Nuisance )
Notices were served. The high proportion of Statutory to Intimation
Notices gives some indication of the difficulty in securing compliance
with the latter. Furthermore, legal proceedings to enforce compliance
With Statutory Notices had to be taken in no less than 229 cases.
Of these, 95 resulted in Nuisance Orders being made by the Court.
Of the remaining 134 summonses, 132 were either adjourned or
Withdrawn, as the work required to comply with the Notices was
either in hand, or had been completed, before the hearing. In 2 cases
fines totalling £2 were imposed.
In 17 cases action to enforce compliance with Nuisance Orders
had to be taken. In 16 of these, the Council carried out the work
in default of the persons on whom the Orders were made. In those
cases, the Council were entitled to recover the cost of the works from
those persons, and accounts were accordingly rendered to them. Most
of these accounts had been settled by the end of the year, but in 7
instances proceedings for the recovery of the cost had to be taken.
Judgments for the amounts claimed were obtained in 2 cases, and
in the remaining 5 cases the money was paid before the date of
hearing of the summonses, which were then withdrawn. In the one
remaining case, the Council elected to take proceedings for noncompliance
with the Nuisance Order. The summons was adjourned
sine die, the work having been carried out before the date of hearing.