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The Removal of Aged, Infirm and Diseased Persons.
Power to deal with this matter is given by the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1928.
During the year four cases of aged and infirm persons were brought to our
knowledge and were visited to see if action was necessary and desirable under this
Act. As a result of these visits three of the aged persons consented to removal to
public assistance institutions and one was removed by friends. Application to the
Court for compulsory removal Order was therefore not necessary in any case.
Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction) Acts, 1920 and 1923.
One application was received during the year for a certificate under the above
Acts. On inspection the house was found to be in a satisfactory condition and a
certificate was therefore not issued.
Rent Restrictions Regulations, 1933.
These Regulations, which came into force on the 19th July, 1933, require every
rent book or similar document used by or on behalf of any landlord in relation to
any dwelling-house to which the Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction) Acts
apply, to contain a notice in a form set out in a schedule to the Regulations, giving,
among other things, the name and address of the landlord and agent and
particulars of the provisions under which a tenant is entitled to apply to the sanitary
authority for a certificate, when he considers the premises are not in a reasonable
state of repair.
In furnishing particulars of this requirement to owners and agents of tenement
houses to which the Acts apply, opportunity was taken also again to direct attention
to sec. 5 of the Housing Act, 1925, which requires the name and address of the
Medical Officer of Health of the district and the landlord or other person directly
responsible for keeping the house fit for habitation to be inscribed in every rent
book in the case of houses used or intended to be used by the working classes.
The Sanitary Inspectors make a practice of inspecting the rent books; in a certain
number of cases letters have been written calling the attention of owners to default;
in all instances they have readily complied with the law.
Nuisances Caused by Dogs.
With a view to the prevention of nuisances from the fouling of footways by
dogs the Council, in the year 1926, made the following By-law:—
" No person being in charge of a dog in any street or public place and
" having the dog on a lead shall allow or permit such dog to deposit its
" excrement upon the public footway."
The By-law after being in force for an experimental period until 1st June,
1928, was made permanent; it is administered by the Borough Engineer's
Department.
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