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(v) S.75—
(a) By owners 2
(b) By local authority in default of owners
(c) By occupier
(vi) S.93—Nuisances abated 30
(vii) Nuisances abated and/or other work carried out by
owners on receipt of informal notice 1,108
Following action under Clear Air Act—S.12(2)
Number of notices 24
Complied with by owners 19
SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS
On only two occasions during the year was it necessary to apply to
the Court for Abatement Orders. These applications followed the failure
of owners to comply with Notices that had been served on them under
Section 93 of the Public Health Act, 1936, calling for the execution of
work necessary to abate a nuisance. In one case the Order was granted
and in the other the work was completed before the date of the hearing.
Costs were allowed in both cases and where the Order was granted a fine
was also imposed.
Court action was also taken in respect of four cases involving contraventions
of the Food and Drugs Act. In respect of the failure of the
owner to maintain a proper standard of cleanliness in the kitchen of a
restaurant in North Harrow fines totalling £122 0s. 0d. and costs were
imposed. In two other cases involving foreign matter in food fines
totalling £25 0s. 0d. were imposed. The fourth case was a smoking
offence and in this instance the employee concerned was prosecuted
He was fined £5 0s. 0d.
It was also necessary to institute proceedings against a greengrocer
for failing, after repeated warnings, to close his business on a Wednesday
afternoon. The offence in this case was against a Local Closing Order.
A fine of £5 0s. 0d. was imposed.
HOUSING
The following paragraph about the need for a constant supply of
housing units appeared in the Annual Report for 1963:—
"The need for a constant supply of new houses within the
financial means of the families displaced from unfit houses will
remain a matter of importance and it is hoped that during 1964 and
1965 sufficient housing units will become available to ensure that all
families from dwellings which are the subject of Closing or Demolition
Orders will be rehoused within a reasonable period of an Order
being made."
The need is no less great to-day.