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in certain circumstances that whole houses may be closed instead of
being demolished. Power to determine these Closing Orders is also
given.
Section 3 of the Housing Act, 1949 imposes on the Local Authority
the duty of making closing orders instead of demolition orders for the
preservation of houses of architectural or historical importance.
4. Overcrowding. Housing Act, 1936, Sec. 57(2) and 59(1). A
register of the "permitted numbers" of occupiers of dwellings in the
Borough.
5. Certificates of Disrepair. Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954,
Sec. 26 and 27. (A report on this subject is given on page 28.)
6. Food Premises. One register is kept for all food premises, stalls
and hawkers of food. It incorporates registers required by various
statutes.
Ice cream premises.
Prepared food premises.
Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Sec. 14. [Re-enacted in Sec.
16, Food and Drugs Act, 1955.]
Milk Distributors.
Food and Drugs Act (Milk Dairies and Artificial Cream)
Act, 1950, Sec. 13. [Food and Drugs Act, 1955, Sec. 35.]
(Milk (Special Designation), (Pasteurised and Sterilised
Milk) Regulations, 1949, and Milk (Special Designation)
(Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949.)
Basement Bakehouses.
Factories Act, 1937, Sec. 54.
Hawkers of Food and Storage Premises.
Middlesex County Council Act, 1950, Sec. 11.
7. Infectious Diseases. (Including food poisoning)
Public Health Act, 1936, Sec. 144(1), Public Health
(Infectious Disease) Regulations, 1953, and various
other Regulations concerning poliomyelitis,
meningococcal infection and other diseases. Food and
Drugs Act, 1938, Sec. 17. [Food and Drugs Act, 1955,
Sec. 26.]
8. Tuberculosis.
Public Health Act, 1936, Sec. 143. (Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952).
Every medical practitioner is required to inform the medical officer
of health at once of all notifiable infectious diseases coming to his
notice. The head of the family to which the patient belongs is also
required to notify the medical officer of health but it is rare that information
is received from such source as he invariably leaves this duty to
the patient's doctor.
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