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SECTION E
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION
Staff - inspectorial
The establishment of Public Health Inspectors consists of the Senior
Public Health Inspector, a Deputy Senior Public Health Inspector, ten district
Inspectors, two Food & Drugs Inspectors and one woman Inspector, but
the Borough is at present covered by eight district Inspectors, one Food
and Drugs Inspector aad one woman Inspector.
One of the district Inspectors also acts as Inspector in charge of rodent
control operations.
Exhumations aid Re-Intemnent of Bodies
During the year three licences were granted by the secretary of State
for the exhumation and removal of three bodies from graves in St Mary's
Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road
In one instance it was necessary for two other bodies to be exhumed
temporarily and then re-buried, to enable one of the above removals to be
carried out
Each of these cases was attended by the local district Inspector and
it was possible to certify that each removal had been carried out in a proper
manner.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Restrictions Acts 1920/ 1939
Housing Repairs and Rents Act , 1954
Rent Act, 1957
The Rent Act, 1957 came into force on 6th July, 1957 and is an Act to
amend the Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts 1920 to 1939, the
Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946 and certain other enactments relating
to the control of rents and the right to retain possession of houses.
The Act limits the rent of a controlled house. If upon receipt of a
Notice of proposed increase of rent the tenant of a controlled house considers
that his house is in disrepair he may serve on the landlord a notice
in the prescribed form stating that the dwelling or any part thereof is in
disrepair by reason of defects specified in the notice and that those defects
ought reasonably to be remedied having regard to the age, character
and locality of the dwelling and requesting the landlord to remedy them
If after six weeks the defects have not been remedied or the landlord
has not given, in the prescribed form, an undertaking to do the work, the
tenant may apply to the local authority for a certificate of disrepair Such
application must be accompanied by the statutory fee of 2/6d.
If the local authority is satisfied that the dwelling or part is in
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