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or otherwise, that his application is well founded, and for this purpose
is entitled to apply to the Sanitary Authority for a
certificate."
Twenty-five applications were made to your Authority during
the year, and in every instance a certificate was granted.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS,
OR DIVIDED INTO SEPARATE TENEMENTS.
Much consideration was given to the draft of the new Bye-laws
of the London County Council relating to the above-mentioned
premises.
During 1926, an effort was made to add to such houses
already on our Register, and to see if the latter which were
registerable under the old Bye-laws, fully comply with the new
ones. We have at the time of writing 100 houses let-in-lodgings
upon the Register.
SCAVENGING.
The streets and yards are well scavenged.
While the regular removal of household refuse is performed in a
satisfactory manner, the same cannot be said with regard to the
mode of conveyance of the refuse through the streets.
Our old, overfilled and uncovered, dust-carts are a nuisance
and a bad object-lesson.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION), ACT, 1919.
The Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919, came into operation
on 1st January, 1920. The Council appointed Messrs. D. W.
Matthews and A. P. Piggott, as Rat Officers to administer the
Act in the Borough. This has entailed an amount of work considerably
more than would be implied by a bare statement of
complaints received and dealt with.