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Poplar 1917

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

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WATER.
Water Certificates .
No water certificates were authorised to be given under Section 48 (2)
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
COMBINED DRAINAGE.
Work Executed by Council.
Drainage reconstruction was carried out by the Council at the
undermentioned premises either on account of there being no plans or
the plans not being in order :—134-136 Grundy Street.
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
* For the Cleansing of Verminous Persons, see pages 73-75.