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Inspector of Nuisances Annual Report.
I have the honour of submitting to you my Third Annual
Report of the work done in this District during the year ending
31st December, 1897.
Inspection of the District and Removal of Nuisances.
With a view of ascertaining what nuisances exist calling
for abatement, 2,349 Primary Inspections have been made;
this is an increase of 381 on the number of Inspections made
in 1896.
Of the 2,349 Inspections:
401 were made in the Manor Park Ward,
765 „ ,, Plashet „
921 ,, ,, Central ,,
262 ,, ,, Beckton and North Woolwich Ward.
Details and particulars of the above Inspections are
entered in the Inspector's Journal kept for that purpose.
At 73 per cent, of the houses inspected, various works of
sanitary amendment were required to be executed to put the
premises in a sanitary condition.
In a large number of cases the required works were
executed by the respective persons liable, on the servioe of
the usual written Preliminary Notice -which in all cases
precedes the service of the Statutory Notice, but in four cases
it was found necessary to resort to Legal Proceedings. In one
case the work was done on the service of the Summons, in the
other three cases the Magistrates made Orders for the necessary
work to be done for the abatement of the nuisance, and in one
instance a fine of Forty Shillings and Costs was inflicted for
non-compliance with the Notice and a re-curring penalty of
Ten Shillings per day after the expiration of the Order.