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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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(7) Each Inspector shall report to the Medical Officer of Health any
infringements of the Public Health Act, Metropolis Management Acts,
and By-laws thereunder, Factory and Workshop Acts, Housing Acts,
and any other Act under the jurisdiction of the Council which he may
discover.
(8) Water Certificates.—On application for a certificate being made
under Section 48 of the Public Health (London) Act, the Inspector in
whose district the premises are situated shall examine and report as to
the source of the supply; whether it is constant or intermittent, the
provision of cisterns, where placed, properly constructed and covered;
drinking water taps from rising main or from cistern; sufficiency of
supply to water closets. In tenement houses information should be
given as to the position of drinking water taps.
(9) Restaurant Kitchens are to be visited at least once a quarter.
(10) Bakehouses.—Notices calling attention to the statutory requirements
as to lime-washing, &c., will be sent out in March and September.
(11) Workshops.—Absence of "abstract" and the presence of
" protected" persons in workplaces must be reported to the Medical
Officer of Health. In inspecting premises the presence of workshops
therein and the nature thereof must be specified in the daily report.
Where it is not the duty of a special Inspector, the card of particulars
of such workshops must be filled up by the District Inspector.
(12) Inspectors are not allowed to make plans for builders or owners
of property.
(13) Before proceeding to his district each morning each Inspector
shall leave with the Medical Officer of Health a list of the places he
proposes visiting, as far as possible in the order in which they will be
taken, and specify an address at which he may be communicated with
at a specified time in the middle of the day.
(14) Inspectors will leave their home addresses with the Medical
Officer of Health, and any change of address, whether temporary or
permanent, must be notified to him at once. Any Inspector unable to
be on duty is to communicate at once with the Medical Officer of
Health. If the absence extends to two or more days by reason of
sickness or accident, a medical certificate on the prescribed form is to
be forwarded.
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