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BARNET URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
CHIEF SANITARY INSPECTOR'S REPORT.
Public Health Department,
31 Wood Street,
Barnet.
To the Chairman and Members of
the Barnet Urban District Council.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my first Annual Report giving details of
the work of the Department during the year 1949 •
This report should have been over the signature of the late Charles W. Hill,
whose demise in December 1949, shortly before his intending retirement, brought to
an untimely close over 40 years service with this Council. I am glad to have had
the opportunity of serving under him, and it is my endeavour to be a worthy
successor.
Many items of repair were effected to privately owned house properties during
the year, but the deterioration of houses still continues, due in some measure to
shortages of materials etc., but mainly because of the owners unwillingness to pay
the current high cost of repairs as compared with the controlled pre-war rent
which he is receiving.
There have been some changes in the duties of the Department and these are
noted in the appropriate sections of the report.
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INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
General Inspections of the District have been carried out periodically and
all complaints investigated.
The process of serving a preliminary or intimation notice upon the person in
default, specifying the works necessary to remedy the defects found, is usually
followed. It was found necessary to ask your authority to serve only thirty
Statutory Notices, where persons failed to comply with the preliminary notice, or
the strict legal procedure was necessary in the first instance.