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89
Water Certificates issued* 120
Revenue Act certificates dealt with —
Drains tested (with chemical, water or smoke test) 4,106
Sanitary Works completed 4,908
Samples of Food and Drugs taken 2,000
Notices—
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (Preliminary or
Intimation 5,012 and Statutory 3,560) 8,572
Metropolis Local Management Acts 15
Sanitary Nuisances abated—
(a) Structural 7,306
(b) Non-structural 3,206
Summonses issued—
Public Health Act† 11
Food and Drugs Acts‡ 8
Margarine Acts§ 4
N.B.—In addition to the above, the 12 District Sanitary
Inspectors carried out during 1927 routine duties connected with the
inspecting of unsound and unwholesome food, the supervision of
bakehouses, slaughter-houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and
milk stores, ice-creameries, the market thoroughfares, outside urinals
of public-houses, smoke, the male public conveniences, factories and
workshops, and work-places wherein males are employed, common
lodging-houses, offensive trades, effluvium nuisances, houses let in
lodgings, exempted tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and manure
depots, etc. No new houses were registered under the by-laws for
houses let in lodgings.
* Including 408 houses (51 being in blocks) and 408 tenements,
† 8 convictions, 3 summonses withdrawn.
‡ 4 convictions, 4 summonses dismissed on costs.
§ 1 summons dismissed, 1 summons dismissed on costs, 2 summonses
withdrawn.