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Poplar 1935

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

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Report of the Inspector for Houses Divided into Separate Tenements, etc.
(a) Houses divided into separate Tenements, etc.
Number of Houses on Register at end of 1934 242
,, ,, removed from Register during 1935 5
237
,, ,, registered during 1935 30
,, ,, on Register at end of 1935 267
Visits for registration purposes . 137
Declarations, for information, sent out 1
,, with information, returned 1
Rooms measured, 15
Houses registered 30
Notices of registration sent out 34
Inspections:
(a) Night inspections 5
(b) First annual inspections 121
(c) Other routine inspections 96
(d) On complaints 24
(e) On account of re-housing 8
Re-inspections 288
Miscellaneous visits, enquiries, etc. 354
Number of informal notices served 87
,, ,, ,, complied with 47
,, Notices served 44
,, ,, complied with 25
,, Final Notices served 9
,, cases in which legal proceedings were taken 3
Work done as a result of Final Notice or legal proceedings,
number of cases 7
Number of rooms cleansed and freed from vermin 89
Overcrowding, cases discovered 3
,, ,, abated 7
Mixed sleeping, cases discovered 2
,, ,, abated 1