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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Borough of Wimblebon.
Sanitary Department.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SANITARY INSPECTOR
FOR THE
Year ended 31st December, 1928.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Wimbledon.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Report of the work carried out
in my Department for the year ended 31st December, 1928.
Table iii. gives a summary in detail of the various nuisances
abated and sanitary improvements effected.
Notices Served.—One thousand three hundred and seventy
three Preliminary Notices or intimations were served during the
year in respect of 1,188 houses. It was found necessary to
serve 107 Statutory Notices upon the owners or occupiers of 97
houses.
Six hundred and fifty-eight letters, respecting 765 houses,
were received through the Town Clerk's Department, and
answered, enquiring if any sanitary notices were outstanding
with respect to properties for which negotiations for sale were
in progress.
Legal Proceedings.—Legal proceedings were instituted in
the following cases with the results stated: —
1.—For failing to comply with Notice to Abate Nuisance.
Two Guineas Costs, and ordered to execute work in
fourteen days.
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