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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 Annual Report giving details of the
work of the Department during the year 1952 in administering the various Acts,
Regulations and Byelaws in force in the district.
There has been a reduction in the number of complaints, received during the
year, concerning the condition of houses. This is no doubt due In the main to
two factors, namely (l) that war damage repairs are almost complete, and (2) that
tenants, realising that their rents are controlled at a low level compared with
present day values, are themselves doing many of the smaller items of repair.
An interesting addition to our work this year has been some six requests
from students for information on the duties of the department, They have all
appeared to be most interested in the score of our work and I have felt that the
hour or so which has been given to each has been well spent to the benefit of the
Local Government service and of the young citizen of tomorrow.
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
nineteen Statutory Notices, where persons failed to comply with the preliminary
notice, or the strict legal procedure was necessary in the first instance.