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Town Hall,
Anerley Road,
Anerley, S.E.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council
of Penge.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of presenting to you my thirteenth
Annual Report for the year ending the 31st December 1913.
Four hundred and thirty-six premises, excluding those
under the heading of food trade inspections, factories and
workshops, and lodging houses have been inspected and
2,347 miscellaneous inspections and re-inspections made of
urinals, stables, &c., and also in following up the work in
hand, testing drains &c.
The number of letters written was 1,266 against 1,187
and 881 in the previous two years, 766 intimation notices,
against 758 and 696, and 244 statutory notices compared with
181 and 175 were served.
DRAINAGE.
Twenty-six houses have been provided with entirely new
drains, and twenty-five have had the drains repaired or
partially re-laid; 1,862 feet of glazed stoneware pipes with
water-tight joints were laid on cement concrete; 41 inspection
chambers have been constructed; 54 water closets, 96 gullies,
and 35 soil and ventilation pipes were fixed.