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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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RENT ACT, 1957
| (a) Applications for Certificates of Disrepair | 20 | |
| Applications outstanding from 1961 | 3 | 23 |
| Decisions not to issue Certificates | 2 | |
| Decisions to issue Certificates | ||
| (a) in respect of some but not all defects | 7 | |
| (b) in respect of all defects | 14 | 21 |
| Applications awaiting action at end of year | ||
| 23 | ||
| (b) Number of cases where decisions were made to issue Certificates but were awaiting action by the landlords at the end of 1961 | ||
| Undertakings given by landlords under paragraph 5 of the First Schedule of the Act | 15 | |
| Undertakings refused under proviso to paragraph 5 of the First Schedule of the Act | 1 | |
| Certificates of disrepair issued | 5 | |
| Certificates still to be issued or undertakings still to be received from landlords at end of year | ||
| (c) Applications for certificates as to the remedying of defects specified in a landlord's undertaking | ||
| (a) by landlords | 15 | |
| (b) by tenants | 3 | |
| (c) applications outstanding from 1961 | - | |
| 18 | ||
| Certificates issued | ||
| (a) defects remedied | 14 | |
| (b) defects not remedied | 4 | |
| (c) applications awaiting action at end of years | - | |
| 18 |