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Lambeth 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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91
Water Certificates issued* 157
Revenue Act certificates dealt with —
Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) 4399
Sanitary Works completed 5878
Samples of Food and Drugs taken 2000
Notices-
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or Intimation
5835 and Statutory 3901) 9736
Metropolis Local Management Acts 12
Sanitary Nuisances abated—
(a) Structural 7454
(b) Non-structural 3601
Summonses issued—
Public Health Actt 4
Food and Drugs Acts 13
Margarine Actsg 1
N.B.—In addition to the above, the 12 District Sanitary Inspectors
carried out during [926 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.
* Including 265 houses (43 being in blocks) and 265 tenements.
† 4 convictions.
1 conviction, 11 summonses dismissed, and 1 summons not heard owing to
death of defendant.
1 summons dismissed.