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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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BENT ACT, 1957.
Details of action taken between 1st January and 31st December, 1963, are
as follows:
Applications for certificates 57
Decisions not to issue certificates NIL
Decisions to issue certificates 57
(a) in respect of some but not
all defects 50
(b) in respect of all defects 7
Undertakings given by landlords 31
Undertakings refused by Council NIL
Certificates issued 25
Applications by landlords to Council
for cancellation of certificates 7
Objections by tenants to cancellation
of certificates 2
Council decisions to cancel in spite
of tenants' objections 1
Certificates cancelled 6
CLOSING ORDERS (PUBLIC HEALTH, (LONDON) ACT, 1936)
No Closing Orders were made under this Act during the year.
CLOSING ORDERS (HOUSING ACT, 1957)
3 Closing Orders were made under this Act during 1963.
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