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Borough of Wimbledon.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Sanitary Inspector
for the
Year ended 31st December, 1909.
Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in submitting for your perusal the
report of the work carried out in my Department for the Year
ending 31st December, 1909, which I venture to hope will
meet with your approval and demonstrate the effect of a Sanitary
Inspector's duties upon the health of the community.
I have endeavoured to make this report, though comparatively
brief, a comprehensive record, and it deals with
the abatement and suppression of nuisances under the various
Public Health Acts, the application of the Factory and Workshop
Acts, the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, the Shop
Hours Acts, the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders,
the special local Bye-laws, the supervision of drainage reconstruction
and repairs, and the inspection of Restaurants,
Slaughter.houses, Butchers' and Fishmongers' Shops.
Notices Served.—During the year 927 preliminary Notices
or intimations were served affecting 1,359 houses, which in
most cases resulted in the nuisances or defects found being
remedied, but the owners of 191 houses failed to carry out
my requests, and in consequence 134 Statutory Notices were
served by the authority of the Council, and, in all but one of
the cases, before the ultimatum given had expired the necessary
work was put in hand.
It affords me pleasure to again record that property
owners and agents have, broadly speaking, co-operated with
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