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to sanitation shows a marked decrease, as evidenced by the following
table.
Complaints received 3,763 Water supply—
House inspections 29,213 New houses certified —
Shop Act inspections 43 Additional to tenement
Factory, etc., inspections 2,263 houses 1
Gipsy van inspections 15 Water closets provided, etc. 6
Drains— Smoke observations —
Smoke tests 18Notices served—
Water tests 234 Intimation 1,682
Relaid 10 Statutory—
Repaired 232 Sections 197 and 220 1,524
Plans received 30 Fifth schedule, etc.752
Persons cleansed (including Mortuary—
6,656 children 9,739 Bodies received 424
Premises disinfected 2,432 P.M. examinations 423
Articles disinfected 28,006 Inquests 135
Scabies and Vermin.—During the year the number of baths given at
the Personal Cleansing Station was 8,583 (2,983 adults; 5,600 children), and
for other verminous conditions 1,156 (139 adults, 1,017 children).
Three notices were served under the Scabies Order, but in no case
was it found necessary to institute legal proceedings.
Legal proceedings to enforce various requirements or for the recovery
of penalties incurred by the breach of statutory requirements were taken
in 19 instances; fines were inflicted amounting to 10s., and costs to
£8 19s. 6d.
Factories and Homework—The. number of factories in which
mechanical means are used increased by 10 to 251, and of non-mechanical
factories decreased by 10 to 120. Inspections of these premises numbered
1,745. The number of homeworkers increased by 16 to 158.
Bakehouses numbered 45 at the end of the year. The number of underground
bakehouses remained at 14. Three of the 45 premises do not rank
as factories since only the proprietor works on the premises. Ill inspections
of bakehouses were made during 1942.
Protection of the Food Supply.—1,200 samples (of which 586 were
informally taken) were analysed by the Public Analyst. Of these 9
(4 informal) were certified to be adulterated, which gives: a percentage of
adulteration of 0.75.
608 of the samples were of milk, the percentage of adulteration among
Which was 0.5. There were 80 dairies (milk shops) registered at the end
of the year. 23 licences to sell tuberculin tested milk and 38 for pasteurised
milk were valid during 1942. 131 premises were on the register for the sale
of preserved foods and 32 as fish shops. Street stalls from which food was
sold numbered' 92.