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Willesden 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Local Regulations:—
Small Holdings and Allotment Act, 1908. Adopted 25.11.1913.
*Relating to underground sleeping rooms, Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909,
s. 17 (7). Adopted 23.9.1913.
* These are administered wholly or partly by the Health Committee.
The unstarred are administered by other Committees of the Council.
Sanitary Inspection] of the Area.
| Inspections: | |
|---|---|
| Number of premises inspected on complaint | 2,077 |
| Number of premises inspected in connection with infectious diseases | 113 |
| Number of premises under periodical inspection | 1,862 |
| Houses inspected from House to House (Housing Act, 1925) | 1,263 |
| For Certificates under the Rent Acts | 21 |
| Public House Urinals | 331 |
| Mews and Stables | 639 |
| Miscellaneous | 95 |
| Total number of inspections and re-inspections made | 25,323 |
| Number of applications received for Certificates | 21 |
| Number of Certificates granted | 8 |
| Notice to Inspect (Section 127, Housing Act, 1925) | 3,383 |
| Cautionary or Intimation Notices Issued | 3,521 |
| Number complied with | 2,798 |
| Statutory Orders issued | 256 |
| Number complied with | 195 |
| Summonses served | 1 |
| Number of convictions obtained | 1 |
| Summonses withdrawn | 0 |
| ,, dismissed | 0 |
| Number registered under Bye-laws | 0 |
| Number of contraventions | 0 |
| Number registered under Bye-laws | 1 |
| Number of Inspections made | 22 |
| Number of contraventions | 10 |
| Number remedied | 9 |
| Number of contraventions of Regulations | 2 |
| Number remedied | 2 |
| Number observed during the year | 8 |
| Number of nuisances therefrom abated | 0 |
| Number removed from district | 0 |
| Number in district | 62 |
| Number of Inspections | 245 |
| Contraventions of Factory Acts | 63 |
| Contraventions remedied | 58 |
| Number on register | 8 |
| Inspections of carcases, etc. | 477 |
| Contraventions of Bye-laws | 4 |
| Contraventions remedied | 4 |
| Number on register | 2 |
| Number of inspections made | 19 |
| Contraventions of regulations | |
| Contraventions remedied | 0 |
| Number of milch cows in district | 62 |