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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 199
These inspections were made chiefly on account of nuisances
and damp conditions reported to me by the Sanitary Inspectors,
and also to ascertain if any of these premises could be reported
to the Council under the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act,
and also the By-laws as to Underground Rooms, made under
the above Act.
Including the house-to-house inspections and inspections
for certificates under the Revenue Act, but excluding the
routine inspection of bakehouses, slaughter-houses, cowsheds,
and offensive trade premises, 820 inspections were made of
premises, chiefly previous to the service of statutory notices.
My attendance at the Police Court was necessary on 10
occasions during the year.
Revenue Act.
During the year eight certificates were granted under the above
Act, one deferred, and one refused.
The certificates granted referred to 27 houses or 61 tenements,
that deferred to one house or two tenements, and those refused to
two houses or six tenements.
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.
All the house-to-house inspections during the year have again
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 were 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.