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Poplar 1938

[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 1937347
,, ,, removed from Register during 1938.
,, ,, registered during 19381
,, ,, on Register at end of 1938348
Visits for registration purposes49
Declarations, for information, sent out.
,, with information, returned.
Rooms measured, etc..
Houses registered1
Notices of registration sent out.
Inspections: (a) Night inspections1
(b) First annual inspections184
(c) Other routine inspections5
(d) On complaints37
(e) On account of re-housing1
Re-inspections884
Miscellaneous visits, enquiries, etc.342
Number of informal notices served106
,, ,, complied with107
,, Notices served45
,, ,, complied with15
Final Notices served13
cases in which legal proceedings were taken3
Work done as a result of Final Notice or legal proceedings number of cases11
Number of rooms cleansed and freed from vermin56
Overcrowding, cases discovered.
,, ,, abated.
Mixed sleeping, cases discovered.
,, ,, abated.