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Result of Service of Notices
(1) Legal Proceedings.
Proceedings were instituted against the owners of two dwelling
houses for failing to comply with Abatement Notices served under
Section 93 of the Public Health Act, 1936. In both cases the Court
made Nuisance Orders for the work to be carried out within 28 days.
Costs of £5 5s. Od. were granted to the Council. Neither Nuisance
Order was complied with within the stipulated time and the defendants
were fined £10 in each case. For failing to comply with Nuisance
Orders for a period of 44 days a fine of £22 in each case was also
imposed. The nuisances were finally abated.
Proceedings were also instituted against the occupier of a house
for failing to comply with an Abatement Notice, Public Health Act,
1936, Section 93, arising from the filthy and insanitary condition of
his kitchen. A 14-day Nuisance Order was made by the Court on the
defendant who was charged £3 3s. Od. costs and court fees of 8s. 6d.
(2) Nuisances abated and Defects remedied.
Two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine defects were remedied
as the result of the service of verbal, written and Statutory
Notices. 1,176 were in connection with the drainage of buildings;
984 in and around dwelling houses; 575 in connection with food
premises; and 54 were of a miscellaneous nature.
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