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Poplar 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Report of Sanitary Inspector, Bow West Division.
Public Health Department,
December 31st, 1911.
To the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: sir,—I beg to lay before you my twenty-second Annual Summary of the Sanitary work carried out in my Division during the year ended 31st December, 1911, as follows :—

sir,—

I beg to lay before you my twenty-second Annual Summary of the Sanitary work carried out in my Division during the year ended 31st December, 1911, as follows :—

Inspections on complaints of nuisances1,092
Do. on notifications of infectious diseases338
Do. on house-to-house visitation102
Do. Canal Boats31
Re-inspections1,458
Making a total of3,021 visits.

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Details and results of such inspections from time to time have been
entered in the book kept for that purpose, as prescribed by the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
Of the total number (1,563 houses and other premises) of primary
inspections made, I found that various works of sanitary amendment
were needed to be carried out in 30.7 per cent, of the premises
thus inspected—requiring the service of 480 written intimations, 222 statutory,
and 10 final notices. In many of these cases, on the service of the
usual written intimations, which in all cases precede the service of
statutory notices, the required works were executed by the respective
persons liable, but in no case was it found necessary to have recourse
to legal proceedings to ensure enforcement.