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HOUSE PROPERTY INSPECTIONS, etc.
A summary of the sanitary work done during the year will be
found in Table No. 16. The total number of premises inspected was
5,301, whilst re-inspections, calls, services of notices, etc., amounted to
13,566. The number of preliminary notices or "intimations" served
during the year was 2,292, whilst the number of "statutory notices"
served was 264, and in only one case was it necessary to take legal
proceedings to enforce these orders.
Overcrowding was abated in 22 cases without having to take
legal proceedings.
Smoke Nuisances. During the year 133 observations were
made of chimneys emitting black smoke, and in 17 cases where black
smoke was emitted in such quantity as to be a nuisance, notices were
served to abate the nuisance. Legal proceedings were taken in one
case only, Messrs. R. H.& L. Rogers & Co., Ltd., shirtmakers, Bolina
Road, Cliftonville, and they were fined £5 and £1 3s. costs.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The bylaws relating to houses let in lodgings, or occupied by
members of more than one family, made by the Council pursuant to
Sec. 94 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891:—
(a) For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a
house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family, and for the separation of the
sexes in a house so let or occupied.
(b) For the registration of houses so let or occupied.
(c) For the inspection of such houses.
(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for promoting
cleanliness and ventilation in such houses.
(c) For the cleansing and lime-washing at stated times of
the premises.
(f) For the taking of precautions in case of infectious
disease.
The number on the register is 269, the whole of which were
regularly inspected with a view to seeing that they comply with the
bylaws as regards cleanliness, overcrowding, etc.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
These premises have been regularly inspected during the year,
and include hotel kitchens, restaurants, ham and beef shops, eel pie
shops, fried fish shops, coffee shops and eating houses of all kinds,
and any place where food is prepared or cooked for sale to the public.