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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
Hampstead 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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Improvement Grants 1954 - 1957
| Applications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Received | Granted | Refused | Withdrawn | |
| 1954 January - June | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| July - December | 6 | 3 | 3 | - |
| 1955 January - June | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
| July - December | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 1956 January - June | 9 | 4 | 5 | - |
| July - December | 4 | 3 | 1 | - |
| 1957 January - June | 19 | 17 | 1 | 1 |
| July - December | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| TOTALS :- | 66 | 44 | 15 | 7 |
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT. 1955. SECTION 27
This most useful Section provides that
"(l) Where a sanitary authority are satisfied that -
(a) any house in their district is in such a state
(in this section referred to as a 'defective
state') as to be a nuisance or injurious or
dangerous to health; and
(b) having regard to all the circumstances unreasonable
delay in remedying the defective state would be
occasioned by following in relation to such house
(in this section referred to as 'the premises')
the procedure prescribed in the Fifth Schedule to
the Act of 1936.
the authority may (instead of serving a nuisance notice under
the said Fifth Schedule) serve, upon the person upon whom it
would otherwise have been appropriate under the said schedule to
serve such a nuisance notice, a notice to the effect that the
authority intend to remedy the defective state of the premises
themselves and specifying the defects which they intend to
remedy".