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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 tne honour to present to you my Annual Report giving details of
the work of the Department during the year 1953 in administering the various
Acts, Regulations and Byelaws in force in the district.
Housing repair work has continued at a comparitively low level for
several years now since the war. Now that the extreme shortage of housing
accommodation is not so acute and with the impending legislation, in the
form of the Housing Rent and Repairs Bill, the main efforts of the department
will have to be directed to this work of repair and improvement of
housing conditions. Whether there will be any great demand for
certificates as to the condition of property in response to the landlord's
notice of increase of rent is a matter of conjecture at this stage.
The final census figures are expected to be published shortly and
when these are available, the Council will become the responsible authority
for all duties under the Shops Acts, and not as at present with the County
Council exercising some of the powers. This work will combine well with
our other visits to shops in connection with the Food and Drugs Acts, of
which again the County Council exercise some powers. The Council have
resolved to make application for these further powers, from the County
Council, as they are entitled to, following the issue of census figures
which will show the population to be over twenty thousand inhabitants.
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