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73
Water Certificates issued* 101
Revenue Act certificates dealt with 8
Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) 4368
Sanitary Works completed 5629
Samples of Food and Drugs taken 2000
Notices—
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or Intimation
5613 and Statutory 3656) 9268
Metropolis Local Management Acts 19
Sanitary Nuisances abated
(a) Structural 7430
(b) Non-structural 3643
Summonses issued-
Public Health Act† 4
Food and Drugs Acts‡ 12
Margarine Acts
N.B. In addition to the above, the District Sanitary Inspectors
carried out during 1924 routine duties connected with the inspecting
of unsound and unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses,
slaughter houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores,
ice-creameries, the market thoroughfares, outside urinals of publichouses,
smoke, the male public conveniences, factories and workshops,
and work-places wherein males are employed, common
lodging-houses, offensive trades, effluvium nuisances, houses let in
lodgings, exempted tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and manure
depots, etc. No new houses were registered under the by-laws for
houses let in lodgings. Routine house-to-house inspections were
carried out under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Acts by the
newly-appointed Housing Sanitary Inspectors, who commenced
their duties on May 1st, 1920 (vide Section on Housing). Extra
* Including 102 houses (2 being in blocks) and 108 tenements.
† 4 convictions.
‡ 10 convic.ions, 1 summons dismissed, and 1 summons withdrawn.