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Fixing of W.C. Pans and Traps without Notice.
Where w.c. pans and traps are fixed without notice being given under
Clause 14 of the London County Council bye-laws, Section 39 (1) of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the builders are written to asking
them to open the ground, otherwise legal proceedings will be instituted
against them for infringing the bye-law. This mode of procedure
prevents good work being constructed on to defective work. Whenever
drainage work is found to have been executed and covered up without
inspection, if the builder will not open the ground, the work is exposed
by the Sanitary Authority, and such a line of action ensures sound work.
Overcrowding.
Certificates were given under Section 4 (3) (c) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, respecting five cases of overcrowding, and the
Committee directed that the necessary notices should be served; 43 cases
of overcrowding were abated upon service of intimations, so that there
were in connection with private houses, 48 of overcrowding abated;
3 cases of overcrowding were found in workshops (see Miss Tattersall's
report, page 190); 59 cases of overcrowding were also abated in connection
with houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than
one family (see Mr. Tibbatts's report, page 192). Legal proceedings were
not instituted in any instance.
General.
8,803 communications were received, and 835 complaints (including
33 smoke) as to nuisances were made. 4,686 communications were
despatched.