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Part I—Applications for Certificates of Disrepair.
1. Number of applications for Certificates 49 (46)
2. Number of decisions not to issue Certificates Nil (1)
3. Number of decisions to issue Certificates (Form 1) 46 (45)
(a) in respect of some but not all defects 37 (36)
(b) in respect of all defects 9 ( 9)
4. Number of undertakings given by landlord (Form K) 30 (24j
5. Number of undertakings refused by local authority Nil (Nil)
6. Number of Certificates issued (Form L) 26 (11)
Part II—Applications for cancellation of Certificates
7. Applications by landlords to local authority for cancellation
of Certificates (Form M) 17 ( 2)
8. Objections by tenants to cancellation of Certificates 10 (Nil)
9. Decisions by local authority to cancel in spite of
tenants' objections 3 ( 3)
10. Certificates cancelled by local authority 12 ( 2)
Overcrowding
Overcrowding in its legal sense is an offence under the Housing
Act, in which is set out details constituting overcrowding.
During the year one case was reported to the Public Health Committee
and one case abated.
Meat Inspection.
The arrangement made with the Port of London Authority, reported
last year, continued and a large number of frozen carcases were inspected
at a local wholesale meat depot in the early part of the year.
The carcases had been on board ship and damaged in transit.
Meat and canned foods are supplied to a large number of retailers
on this side of London.
It should be possible to ensure by regular inspections and with the
co-operation of the firm concerned that all home-killed meat sold has
been inspected at the proper place, i.e., the slaughterhouse, before
arrival at the depot. The depot is a convenient place to check that
retailers' vans which are used to collect the meat comply with the
Food Hygiene Regulations.
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