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Legal Proceedings.
During the year, legal proceedings were taken by the Council in
30 cases, for the enforcement of various Acts, By-laws, Regulations,
administered by the Health Department. A summary is set out
below :-
Cases
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 115
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1954 3
National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951 1
Food and Drugs Act, 1955 1
Housing Act, 1957 3
By-laws re drainage 6
By-laws re water-closets 1
130
Fines totalling £33 0s. 0d. were imposed in connection with these
Proceedings, and £52 5s. 6d. 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, 1,602 Intimation Notices (relating to 1,277
Premises) and 878 Statutory (Nuisance) Notices (relating to 707
Premises) were served. It was found necessary to refer 158 cases to the
Council's Solicitor with instructions to take steps, by legal proceedings
if necessary, to enforce compliance with Statutory Notices. In 43 of
these cases a warning letter from the Solicitor had the desired effect.
In the remaining 115 cases, however, summonses had to be issued. As a
result Nuisance Orders were made by the Court in 39 instances. The
remaining 76 summonses were ultimately withdrawn, the Notices having
been complied with subsequent to the issue of the summonses.
Defective conditions in 1,299 houses were remedied—680 by owners
following the service of Intimation Notices; 600 by owners following the
service of Stationary Notices, and in 19 cases action to enforce compliance
with Nuisance Orders had to be taken, and 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.
Dustbins.
During the year, 25 notices were served under Section 12 of the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1954, concerning he
provisions of dustbins, and 70 dustbins were provided, 6 being supplied
by the Council in default of the owners, from whom the cost was
afterwards recovered.