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Poplar 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Legal Proceedings.
At the Thames Police Court, on 18th July, the landlord of Nos.
319 and 321, West Ferry Road, Millwall, was summoned for not
providing "a proper and sufficient supply of water on each storey,"
according to notices served, also for not carrying out cleansing, and
having rooms rid of vermin, according to further notices served.
Fined re No. 319, £2 and 23s. costs re water supply.
,, No. 319, £5 and 23s. costs re cleansing.
,, No. 321, £5 and 23s. costs re cleansing.
Total £15 9s.
| Houses registered | 21 |
| Notices sent out re houses being placed on register | 21 |
| Declarations for information, outstanding 1910 | 10 |
| ,, with information, sent out | 15 |
| — 25 | |
| ,, with information returned | 21 |
| House-to-House inspections | 331 |
| Rooms measured, and capacity entered in registers | 116 |
| House-to-House visits, for registration purposes | 30 |
| Oases of overcrowding, outstanding December 31st, 1910 21 | 141 |
| ,, discovered during the year 120 | |
| ,, abated ,, | 136 |
| ,, outstanding at the end of the year | 5 |
| Notices served for cleansing to be carried out | 228 |
| ,, abatement of overcrowding | 90 |
| ,, where means of ventilation were not in good order | 105 |
| ,, under Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | 84 |
| ,, under London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Section 20 | 68 |
| Final notices served for cleansing to be carried out | 6 |
| Re-inspections | 2343 |
| House-to-house enquiries re smallpox | 21 |
| Notices served under London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907 | 9 |
| Night Inspections | 73 |
| Rooms stripped and cleansed | 494 |
| Yards limewashed | 168 |