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Stoke Newington 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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II.—Remedy of Defects without Service of Formal Notices.
Number of defective dwelling-houses rendered fit
in consequence of informal action by the Local
Authority or their officers 907
III.—Action under Statutory Powers.
A. Proceedings under section 28 of the Housing,
Town Planning, etc., Act., 1919. Nil
B.—Proceedings under Public Health Acts.
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of
which notices were served requiring
defects to be remedied 907
(2) N umber of dwelling-houses in which defects
were remedied:—
(a) by owners 907
(b) by Local Authority in default of
owners Nil
C. Proceedings under sections 17 and 18 of the
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909. Nil
3.—UNHEALTHY AREAS.
Areas represented to the Local authority, with a view
to Improvement Schemes under (a), Part I., or (b), Part
II., of the Act of 1890 Nil
1.—Number of houses not complying with the building
byelaws erected with consent of Local Authority under
section 25 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1919 Nil
2.—Staff engaged on housing work with, briefly, the
duties of each officer:—
Two Sanitary Inspectors
One Clerk and part-time Sanitary Inspector.
SCAVENGING.
The Scavenging of the Borough is satisfactorily provided for
and carried out by an efficient weekly collection of the house refuse,