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Borough of Wimbledon.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Sanitary Inspector
FOR THE
Year ended 31st December, 1908.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors
of the Borough of Wimbledon.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Report for the year
ended 31st December, 1908, on the work carried out by the
Sanitary Department in connection with the abatement and
suppression of nuisances and other matters under the Public
Health Acts, the Factory and Workshops Acts, the Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts, and also in connection with the enforcement
of the various Bye-laws made by the Local Authority,
including house-to-house inspection, supervision and testing
of drainage work, the inspection of Workshops, Bakehouses,
Restaurants, Slaughter-houses, Butchers' and Fishmongers'
Shops and Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
Notices Served.— In connection with the abatement of
nuisances under the Public Health Acts and the remedying of
contraventions of the Bye-laws and other Statutes which are
under the jurisdiction of an Inspector, 774 Notices in respect
of 1,038 houses were served, and it is pleasing to note that it
was only found necessary to serve 158 Statutory Notices
respecting 189 houses at the instance of the Sanitary
Authority, the experience being that in the majority of cases
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