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NOTICES SERVED
To deal with unsatisfactory conditions found during the course of the above
inspections, the following notices were served:-
Informal or Cautionary 747
Statutory Notices
Served under Public Health Acts 53
Served under other Acts, Regulations, etc.102
As will be seen from these numbers, the majority of matters found requiring
attentions are successfully dealt with without recourse to the service of Statutory
Notices under the various Acts, Orders or Regulations.
The institution of legal proceedings only became necessary in the following
instances:-
Charge Result
Failure to pay his proportion of The Magistrates made an order re-
the cost of work carried out by quiring the Defendant to pay the
the Council in scavenging a private amount of £1.0.3d. due and awarded
common passage in default under Sec. the Council costs.
78,PHA1936.
Failure to comply with Abatement The Magistrates agreed to the with-
Notice served under Sec.93,PHA drawal of the summons as the nui-
1936 requiring removal of accumu- sance had been abated by the time
lation of rubbish. of the hearing, and awarded the
Council's Court fees.
HOUSING
Inspection of dwelling houses during the year-
Number of dwellings inspected at which defects were found
requiring action under the Public Health Acts 360
Number of houses surveyed for action under Housing Acts 40
Number of houses surveyed for issue of Certificates of
Unfitness under Housing (Financial) Provisions Act, 1958 17
Number of houses surveyed and reports submitted for use
by District Valuer in connection with negotiations for
acquisition by the Council 102
Total number of inspections and reinspections made 4,650
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