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Malden and Coombe 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]
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17.
RENT ACT, 1957.
The following tables show the matters dealt with under the Act.
| Applications for Certificates of Disrepair. | |
| Number of applications for certificates | 32 |
| Number of decisions not to issue certificates | 2 |
| Number of decisions to issue certificates- | |
| (a) in respect of some but not all defects | 26 |
| (b) in respect of all defects | 9 |
| Number of undertakings given by landlords under paragraph 5 of the First Schedule | 26 |
| Number of undertakings refused by Local Authority under proviso to paragraph 5 of the First Schedule | Nil. |
| Number of Certificates issued | 9 |
| Applications for cancellation of certificates. | |
| Applications by landlords to Local Authority for cancellation of certificates | 5 |
| Objections by tenants to cancellation of certificates | 1 |
| Decisions by Local Authority to cancel in spite of tenants' objection | 1 |
| Certificates cancelled by Local Authority | 6 |
| Applications by landlords or tenants for certificate as to the remedying of defects which landlord has undertaken to remedy. | |
| Certificates issued to landlords | 11 |
| Certificates issued to tenants | 8 |
WATER SUPPLY.
The whole of the area is supplied by the Metropolitan Water
Board and the supply has been satisfactory both as regards quantity and
quality. In view of the large number of routine bacteriological and
chemical examinations carried out by the Water Examination Department
of the Board it was not considered necessary to make any routine tests.
One water sample was taken on receipt of a complaint, the report on
which was satisfactory. All dwelling houses in the area are supplied
by public water mains direct to the houses.
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION.
The following numbers of rooms were disinfected for the undermentioned
causes:-
Tuberculosis 5
Poliomyelitis or suspected poliomyelitis 3
Other 22