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Totals
30. Rats infestation :
(a) Industrial premises 24
(b) Private premises 149
31. Refuse accumulations 214
32. Smoke Nuisance :
(a) from industrial premises 46
(b) from private premises 32
33. Stagnant Water: accumulation 30
34. Underground Rooms : occupied as a dwelling 15
35. Urinal: foul 13
In addition, the District Sanitary Inspectors carried out during
1936 routine duties connected with the inspection 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 public-houses, smoke
abatement, the men's public conveniences, factories and workshops,
and workplaces wherein males are employed, common lodginghouses,
offensive trades, houses let in lodgings, refuse and manure
depots, etc.
A great number of visits have been paid by the Inspectors in
connection with all the premises in which infectious diseases are
reported to have occurred. The opportunity afforded by such
official notifications is taken for an inspection of the sanitary state
of the property together with a test of the drains.
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920-33.
During the year 19 inspections were made and 18 certificates
granted. It should be noted that since the 1933 Act a certificate,
when applied for in accordance with the provisions of the Acts, must
be granted. The administrative latitude previously permissible is
now therefore curtailed.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1928.
Action taken under section 28. Now Section 224, Public Health
(London) Act, 1936.
In four cases only was it necessary to obtain a magistrate's
order under this Section. Several other old people were induced to
enter the London County Council Hospital without the need for
application for orders.