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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(3)—Special inspections were also made by myself and the Deputy
Medical Officer of Health of many premises, chiefly on account
of nuisances and damp conditions reported by the Sanitary
Inspectors and also to ascertain if any of these premises could
be reported to the Council under the Housing, Town Planning,
etc., 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, 134 inspections were made of premises, chiefly
previous to the service of statutory notices, and examination of
suspected cases of infectious disease.
The attendance of the Deputy Medical Officer of Health at
the Police Court was necessary on two occasions during the year.
Revenue Act.
During the year six certificates were granted under the above
Act, and one refused.
The certificates granted referred to 15 houses or 32 tenements,
and that refused to five houses or 10 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.