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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Revenue Act.
During the year 18 Certificates were granted under the above
Act, one was deferred and three refused.
The certificates granted referred to 115 houses, or 239 tenements.
Housing, Town Planning', etc,, Act, 1909.
All the house-to-house inspections during the year have been
carried out under and for the purposes of Section 17 of this Act,
and the results of these inspections have been recorded on the cards,
particulars of which are given in the Report for 1910.
It has not been found necessary to take any action under
this Act as it has been found, after careful consideration and personal
inspection that the nuisances detected could all be dealt with under
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The four houses in Putney and one in Wandsworth, reported on
in 1910 under the above Act, have not been demolished, but the
former are still closed and the latter is now used as a store shed.
The Tables of house-to-house inspections show, as in former
years, the name of the street, the number of houses inspected, the
number of houses in which defects were found, and the number of
families living in one, two, three, or four rooms and upwards.
The defects found are given in the Table of Sanitary Operations,
as also the number of intimation and statutory notices served and
complied with.
During the year a systematic and thorough inspection has
been made of the older houses in the Borough occupied by persons
of the working class, and as will be seen in the Tables a very large
amount of valuable work has been carried out.