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Poplar 1913

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

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Table: Tabulated Statement for the Year ended 31st December, 1913.

Tabulated Statement for the Year ended 31st December, 1913.

Houses registered11
Notices sent cut re houses being placed on register11
Declarations with information, sent out11
„ with information, returned11
House-to-House inspections294
Rooms measured, and capacity entered in registers182
House-to-House visits, for registration purposes24
Cases of overcrowding, outstanding December 31st, 191210149
„ discovered during the year139
„ abated „121
,, outstanding at the end of the year28
Notices served for cleansing to be carried out186
„ abatement of overcrowding94
„ under Public Health (London) Act, 18915
Intimations under London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Section 20, re verminous rooms53
Final notices served for cleansing to be carried out11
Re-inspections2,569
Night Inspections64
Rooms stripped and cleansed372
Yards limewashed140
Wash-house doors refitted6
„ roofs made watertight26
„ pavings repaired24
Water closet doors repaired12
Flushing cisterns made workable4
Areas limewashed6
Wash-houses cleansed125
Water closets „132
Soil pans „44
Staircase walls stripped and cleansed79
Passages and landings stripped and cleansed51
Water closet roofs made watertight22
Sink waste pipes repaired17
New water closets erected1
House-to-House visits re Housing and Town Planning Act29
Notices served under Housing and Town Planning Act37
„ „ L.C.C. Bye-laws38
Rooms where means of ventilation were put in proper working order76
Rooms rid of vermin69
Rain-water pipes repaired19