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Poplar 1915

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

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CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS, 1890-1.
Cap. 8, Sect. 26 (2).
REVENUE ACT, 1903.
3 Edw. 7, Cap. 46.
No certificates for exemption under the Customs and Inland Revenue
Acts, 1890-1, and the Revenue Act, 1903, were granted during the year.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS)
ACT, 1904.
Verminous Rooms.* Licensed Premises' Urinals.
Verminous Rooms.
Verminous rooms are still brought to the notice of owners upon the
''Intimations" which are followed, if necessary, by "Statutory Notices,"
more especially as there are generally other defects upon the premises,
and certainly verminous premises are "in such a state as to be a nuisance
to health," and owners, if they do not already know, are informed when
defects are being dealt with under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
that the vermin must be got rid of, otherwise the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1904, will be brought into operation.
When a notice is served for cleansing under the bye-laws for houses
let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, should
the premises be verminous a special intimation to that effect is enclosed.
One hundred and twelve certificates have been given to the Public
Health and Housing Committee.

During the year 299 rooms have been cleansed of vermin:—

Poplar South Division10
West Combined Division15
East Combined Division29
Bromley Central Division25
Bromley North Division41
Bow West Division38
Bow East Division20
Houses Let in Lodgings121

No summonses were applied for.
* For the Cleansing of Verminous Persons, see pages 97-100.