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Rent and Mortgage Interest Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1983.
Regulations.
Rent Restriction Regulations, 1933. 19th July, 1933.
Holborn (Acute Rheumatism) Regulation, 1933. 1st January, 1933.
Order.
The Transfer of Towers (London) Order, 1933.
The Transfer of Powers (London) Order, 1933.
The above Order, dated the 9th March, 1933, was made by the Minister of
Health under Sec. 64 of the Local Government Act, 1929.
As from the 1st day of April, 1933, certain functions of the London County
Council as set out in the schedule to the Order were transferred to the Council of
each Metropolitan Borough and to the Common Council of the City of London.
The functions so transferred, so far as concerns public health services, are as
follows: —
(i) Licensing, inspection and supervision of seamen's lodging-houses.
(ii) Registration, licensing, inspection and regulation of common lodging-
houses.
(iii) Licensing of dairymen to use premises as cowhouses.
(iv) Licensing and inspection of slaughterhouses and knacker's yards.
(v) Sanctioning of establishment or enlargement of premises used for
offensive trade.
(vi) Infant Life Protection—duties under Part I of the Children Act,
1908, as amended by Part V of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932.
The Holborn Council delegated to the Public Health Committee the duties
under (i) to (v) above inclusive, and to the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
the duties under (vi) above.
In connection with the duties respecting common lodging-houses, the Council
extended the appointments of the Sanitary Inspectors to include the inspection
and supervision of common lodging-houses, and in connection with the duties
under item (vi) the Council appointed the Medical Officer of Health, the Health
Visitors and Sanitary Inspectors as visitors under the Act, it being arranged that
the employment of the male Sanitary Inspectors would be restricted to necessary
inspections on visits relative to penal cases.
Administrative action and other information relative to the several matters
enumerated above are given under their respective headings in the appropriate
sections of this report.
Ambulance Service.
Particulars of the ambulance services available in the Borough are given on
the inside page of the back cover.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OP THE BOROUGH.
Scavenging.
The removal of house and trade refuse is carried out by contract. In the
main thoroughfares, and in a number of other principal streets, there is a daily
collection. In the remainder of the streets the collection is twice weekly.