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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Mousing. 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.
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, and 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.
Underground Rooms.
Several inspections were made of property to ascertain if any
additional underground rooms existed, but no cases were this year
discovered in which there was illegal occupation of such rooms.
All the houses erected for occupation by the working classes
during the past 15 years have no basements, and consequently the
number of underground rooms in this Borough is very small.
Sanitary Operations.
Tables LXXXIX., XC., and XCI., show the number and nature
of the inspections made during the year by the Male and Female
inspectors respectively.
These Tables show in more detail the varied character of the
work carried out by the inspectors.