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72
(b) After service of Formal Notice 1
Number of houses where work was in progress at the end
of the year 147
Number of houses at which work had not been commenced
at end of the year 16
Drainage.—One hundred and seventy-nine plans and notices
to execute drainage work and works of construction under the
supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors at 240 premises were reported
to the Public Health Committee during the year.
Infectious Diseases.—The occupied dwellings inspected during
the year after infectious disease numbered 938. Any nuisances
or sanitary defects found were dealt with under the provisions of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1936.
Smoke Abatement.—In addition to 200 observations of chimneys
of large works in the Borough made by the Sanitary Inspectors,
1,098 observations on 79 premises were made by an Assistant
detailed for that purpose. Twenty-nine intimation notices were
served on the persons responsible for the issue of black smoke in
contravention of the Public Health (London) Act, and the
Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926. Eleven statutory
notices were served.
Offensive Trades.—The offensive businesses carried on in the
Borough at the end of the year were—fur skin dressers 7, poultry
slaughters 3. Forty inspections were made of these premises during
the year and no contraventions of the By-laws relating to the conduct
of businesses were noted.

At the annual census of homeless persons carried out during
the night of llth-12th February, 1938, the following numbers of
lodgers were found at the two common lodging houses:—
1, Homerton High Street 40 men.
23 and 25, Well Street 81 „