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Inspections other than on Complaint.
The number of inspections, other than those arising on
complaint, after infectious disease, and under the Housing and
Town Planning Regulations, made by the Inspectors during the
year was 8,341, and the nuisances or sanitary defects found were
dealt with in the same manner as those on complaint.
Nuisances or defects found on inspection were remedied in most
cases on service of an intimation notice only. The total number of
such notices served during 1930 was 5,125. The number of statutory
notices served was 1,516; and summonses were issued in 55 cases.
Offensive Trades.
The only offensive trades carried on in the Borough are those of
fur skin dressing and poultry slaughtering. These are controlled
under special by-laws. They number at present— fur skin dressers,
16; poultry slaughterers, 1. Thirty-one inspections were made
during the year. There were no contraventions of the by-laws.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904.
During the year attention was drawn by the Medical Officer
(Education) of the London County Council to 17 homes in the
Borough from which children in a verminous condition were attending
school, asking that steps be taken to deal with them under the
above Act. These homes were inspected, with the following
results:—
No. of Homes where No. of Homes where Bedding
No. of Homes Rooms alone were or Clothes and Rooms No. of Homes
Inspected. found Verminous. were found Verminous. not Verminous.
17 3 4 10
The verminous bedding and clothing were taken to the
disinfecting station and steamed, and the verminous rooms fumigated
or sprayed, and, where necessary, notices were served upon the
owners to cleanse and strip the rooms if vermin was afterwards
found present.
There were also 27 notices received from the London County
Council in respect of children suffering from scabies, and 16 notices
from hospitals in respect of out-patients. Two cases were referred
for treatment by private practitioners. The bedding in these cases
was disinfected on receipt of information and again 10 days later.
In addition to the cleansing of verminous rooms or premises by
owners and tenants after service of notice by the Sanitary Inspectors,