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Paddington 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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A census, taken at midnight on llth/12th February, showed the number of beds occupied at
each common lodging house as follows:—
268 and 270, Kilbum Lane 23
272, 274 and 276, Kilbum Lane 40
Cecil House, 179, Harrow Road 37
Three deaths occurred among the occupants during the year. No cases of infectious disease
were notified.
RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) ACTS, 1920-1933.
Seven applications for certificates were made, all of which were granted; in 1 instance a certificate
that the necessary repairs had been carried out to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Authority was
subsequently issued.
In several instances the attention of owners was called to the fact that rent books did not contain
the particulars required by the Acts, and in 10 cases legal proceedings were instituted, the results
of which are shown on page 64.
FACTORIES ACT, 1937. A record of the inspections made, and the defects found and remedied, are shown in the subjoined table:—
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Occupiers prosecuted. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories with mechanical power | 289 | 3 | - |
| Factories without mechanical power | 367 | 3 | - |
| Other Premises under the Act (including works of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises) | 34 | - | - |
| Total | 690 | 6 | - |
Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of defects in respect of which Prosecutions were instituted. | |||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to h.m. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness (S. 1) | 31 | 46 | - | - | |
| Overcrowding (S. 2) | - | - | - | - | |
| Unreasonable temperature (S. 3) | - | - | - | - | |
| Inadequate ventilation (S. 4) | - | - | - | - | |
| Ineffective drainage of floors (S. 6) | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
| Sanitary Conveniences (S. 7) | insufficient | 1 | - | - | - |
| unsuitable or defective | 3 | 6 | - | - | |
| not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| Other offences (Not including offences relating to Home Work or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921, and re-enacted in the Third Schedule to the Factories Act, 1937.) | - | - | - | - | |
| Total | 38 | 54 | 1 | - | |