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Rent (Restrictions) Acts, 1920-1933.—Three applications
for inspections under the provisions of these Acts were
received.
In two cases Certificates were issued. In the third case
the owner carried out the necessary repairs before the matter
could be brought to the notice of the Sanitary Authority.
House-to-House Inspection. — House-to-house surveys
were carried out at four hundred and eighty-six houses. The
following list shows the particular streets and the number
of houses inspected in each:—
Belvedere Square 25
Caroline Road 6
Church Road 12
Coppermill Lane 3
Crooked Billet 49
Dryden Road 66
Gladstone Road 20
Hotham Road 41
Lancaster Cottages 8
North Road 58
Quicks Road 88
Ridley Road 13
South Road 64
Wandle Bank 33
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House Inspection.—As the result of inspections made on
complaint, or in consequence of the occurrence of infectious
disease, or for other reasons, two thousand four hundred and
forty-eight houses were visited. This figure shows an increase
of six hundred and thirty-two as compared with 1936.
At thirty-one houses, from which cases of notifiable
infectious disease had been reported, defective drains or
other insanitary conditions were found to exist. All these
were subsequently remedied under the supervision of the
officers of the Department.
The following table gives a summary of the nuisances
abated and the sanitary improvements carried out, together
with the defects remedied, as the result of house-to-house
inspection under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors:-
47