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Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933
The following applications were received during 1954 for retention or entry
in the Council's list of persons entitled to sell poisons included in Part II of
the Poisons List:-
Retentions 117
New entries 12
Closing and Demolition Orders
The following is a summary of the work carried out during the year in
regard to unfit basement and other rooms:-
Number of rooms reported unfit 116
Number of houses reported unfit 7
Number of rooms closed for all purposes 87
Number of houses closed for all purposes 1*
Number of houses where Demolition Orders were made 6
Number of rooms closed for human habitation, but
permitted to be used for other purposes 16
Number of rooms made fit without the necessity of a
Closing Order 9
Number of existing Closing Orders varied to permit of use
other than human habitation 18
Number of existing Closing Orders determined 36
*8 rooms
Closing orders are operative upon a total of 1,255 rooms in the borough,
of which bi-annual visits of inspection are made.
Overcrowding
Requests were received from the London County Council during 1954 for
investigations to be made of alleged statutory overcrowding in respect of 129
applications for rehousing Reports forwarded in reply confirmed overcrowding in
77 cases
In addition 473 cases were referred to me by the Borough Council's Housing
Department during the year and my recommendations were as follows:-
Certificate "A" 221
" "B" 79
" "C" 139
" "D" 34
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