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Poplar 1936

[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 1935267
,, ,, removed from Register during 193622
245
,, ,, registered during 193670
,, ,, on Register at end of 1936315
Visits for registration purposes179
Declarations, for information, sent out—
,, with information, returned—
Rooms measured, etc12
Houses registered70
Notices of registration sent out85
Inspections:
(a) Night inspections27
(b) First annual inspections166
(c) Other routine inspections121
(d) On complaints57
(e) On account of re-housing7
Re-inspections657
Miscellaneous visits, enquiries, etc.354
Number of informal notices served225
,, ,, ,, complied with134
,, Notices served9i
,, „ complied with50
,, Final Notices served29
,, cases in which legal proceedings were taken4
Work done as a result of Final Notice or legal proceedings, number of cases29
Number of rooms cleansed and freed from vermin182
Overcrowding, cases discovered6
,, ,, abated10
Mixed sleeping, cases discovered—
,, ,, abated—