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"That the Medical Officer of Health be requested to submit, at the next
ordinary meeting of the Committee, a list of streets in the Parish in which a
house to house inspection has been made during the past 5 years, and of
those streets in which, in his opinion, a house to house inspection is urgently
needed."
In conformity with the above resolution, and after consultation
with the several Sanitary Inspectors, I prepared a list of
some 70 streets which had been wholly or in large part inspected,
from house to house, during the previous eighteen months;
and a further list of streets, about 90 in number, being those
that, in my opinion, more "urgently needed" early attention.
I took advantage of the occasion to submit to your Vestry a
report setting out the precise course followed in the Public
Health Department, in dealing with nuisance-cases under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, as follows:—
"On receipt of complaint of a nuisance, the premises where
the nuisance is alleged to exist are visited without delay
by the Sanitary Inspector for the district; and if the
complaint is found to be correct (or should a nuisance be
discovered by the Inspector himself), 'the existence of
the nuisance' is 'immediately brought to the notice of
any person who may be required to abate it,' by the
service of a 'written intimation ' in the following terms:-
'In conformity with the provisions of Sec. 3 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, I hereby give you notice that a nuisance liable to be dealt with
summarily under the said Act, exists at the premises known as
such nuisance being caused by reason of. This written
intimation is given you as being the person by whose act, default, or sufferance,
the nuisance arises or continues, or as being the owner or occupier
of the premises on which the nuisance exists, and as being the person
required to abate the same.'
"The Intimation, which is signed and served by the Sanitary
Inspector, has appended to it a footnote to the following
effect:—
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