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Public Health Department
Brentford,
March, 1912.
To the Chairman and Members of the Brentford Urban District Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting to you, pursuant to the
Order and Circular of the Local Government Board, my FIFTH
Annual Report in which is recorded particulars of the work done in
connection with the inspection of the district.
The circular of the Local Government Board, which was issued
with the Sanitary Officers (outside London) Order, 1910, states
that : " By sub-clause 16 the Inspector is to make an annual report
to the Council on the work performed by him during the year.
INSPECTION OF DISTRICT.
The total number of inspections made to premises in connection
with the work of the department was 2019, including visits to
dairies, cowsheds, milk shops, canal boats, common lodging houses,
visits to works in progress, house to house inspections and to houses
in which cases of infectious disease have occurred.
There has been an increase in the number of inspections as
compared with last year and a corresponding increase in the amount
of work accomplished, particularly under the Housing, Town Planning,
&c. Act. Wherever nuisances were found to exist, notices
were served upon the persons responsible, calling attention to the
matter, and pointing out the necessary remedial works. If these
notices were not complied with reports were made to the Sanitary
Committee and the usual statutory notices were ordered to be
served. I am pleased to report that very little trouble was
experienced in persuading owners and occupiers to remedy the
sanitary defects reported.
The supervision of the work carried out for the abatement of
nuisances has been well maintained, and, while no attempt has
been made to exercise unreasonable control, the efficient execution
of the work was insisted upon.