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BARNET URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
CHIEF SANITARY INJECTOR'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 for the year 1954.
With the passing of the Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954, in August, and
the resumption of slum clearance work, the department turns to a Housing Survey
for report to the Ministry before August 1955°
The preliminary survey has been started and will be completed on time.
With the Act coming into operation late in the year there had not been any
appreciable demand for Certificates of Disrepair, although there have been many
enquiries from owners and tenants as to their rights and responsibilities under
the Act-
The 1951 Census final figures were published and the Council made application
for the further powers under the Food and Drugs Acts, but the Ministry of Health
enquiry was not held before the end of the year. With the publication of the
Census figures the Council became the responsible authority for ail duties under
the Shops Acts.
The benefit of the services of the new additional sanitary inspector, who
quickly settled down, were felt in allowing us, without serious reduction of
existing routine work, to start the Housing Survey and to spread the additional
work of meat inspec tion at the private slaughterhouse irhich opened in July and
involved evening and weekend duties.
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