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NUISANCES.
Work of the Sanitary Inspectors.
Considerable alterations were made in the inspectorial staff during 1910.
In the early months Inspector Smith who had been in the service of the Council as
a district inspector for four years. was promoted to the position of Special Meat
and Food Inspector. and in May. 1910. Inspector Draper. for several years
Sanitary Inspector under the Finsbury Borough Council. was appointed to take
his place. Towards the middle of the year in order to cope with the increase of
work. resulting mainly from the coming into force of the Housing. Town Planning.
etc.. Act. 1909. the Council decided to accept the advice of the Public Health
Committee to sub.divide the borough into five districts. to appoint two additional
inspectors. and to put the work of house.to.house inspection entirely in the
hands of one man. In June. therefore. Inspectors Clay and Cartledge were
appointed and Inspector Hodges was made house.to.house inspector.
The amount of work done was very considerable. the number of complaints
as to nuisance received from all sources being 1.996 as against 1.899 .n
1909. an increase of 97. In respect of nuisances. 658 statutory notices were
issued. the number for 1909 being 514. an increase of 144. Of the notices. 136
were served on owners to provide a proper and sufficient supply of water to the
upper storeys of tenement houses under the London County Council (General
Powers) Act of 1907. as compared with 49 in 1909. an increase of 87. Notices
to the number of 70 were served on owners under the London County Council
(General Powers) Act. 1904. in respect of 103 verminous rooms. an increase of
46 over the previous year when 24 were sent out.
In 1.338 cases the nuisances were abated by the persons responsible on the
service of a preliminary (intimation) notice of the existence of the defect.
The table immediately following gives the total inspections made by each
district inspector. and the number of nuisances of various kinds detected and
remedied.
In 27 cases only was it found necessary to resort to legal proceedings to
enforce compliance with statutory notices. and the table on page 71 gives the
details of the cases so dealt with. the Act or By.laws under which proceedings
were taken and the results.