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Nuisances on bombed sites are the cause of special difficulties
which seem to be insuperable. The sites cannot be fenced for lack
of materials nor can they be cleared because there is usually uncertainty
regarding war damage repair or some disposal difficulty
and they draw irresistibly every kind of unwanted rubbish in the
neighbourhood. The same applies to the static water tanks still
13
Infantile deaths, visits 18
Welfare Centres attendances 257
Diphtheria prevention clinic attendances 208
Post-natal visits 1,287
Visits to children 1-5 years 244
Puerperal Pyrexia visits 19
Puerperal Pyrexia, re-visits 7
Special visits: evacuation, scabies, etc. 2,218

A second male sanitary inspector was seconded to the Housing
Committee for duties connected with the repairs and alterations of
requisitioned property during the year. This left the outdoor work
of sanitary inspection, already almost unmanageable; with two
vacancies among the district sanitary inspectors. Difficulties of
materials and labour coupled with the uncertainties of licences and
permits already meant a great increase of work in maintaining the
pressure to get much-needed repairs put in hand and the loss of
the two men has meant that intimation notices cannot be followed
up regularly. Moreover the increase in cases going to court wastes
much valuable time of the inspector concerned and completes the
full circle starting with the inability of the depleted staff to see
that notices are in fact complied with.
Infantile deaths, visits
18
Welfare Centres attendances
257
Diphtheria prevention clinic attendances
208
Post-natal visits
1,287
Visits to children 1-5 years
244
Puerperal Pyrexia visits
19
Puerperal Pyrexia, re-visits
7
Special visits : evacuation, scabies, etc.
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections (including war damage
to property, etc.)
14,234
Total number of re-inspections
28,651
Total number of intimation notices served
6,646
Total number of nuisance notices served
934
Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections (factories,
workplaces, infectious disease, etc.)
2,190
Total number of re-visits
231
Total number of intimation notices served
96
Workshops in which defects were found
136
A second male sanitary inspector was seconded to the Housing
Committee for duties connected with the repairs and alterations of
requisitioned property during the year. This left the outdoor work
of sanitary inspection, already almost unmanageable; with two
vacancies among the district sanitary inspectors. Difficulties of
materials and labour coupled with the uncertainties of licences and
permits already meant a great increase of work in maintaining the
pressure to get much-needed repairs put in hand and the loss of
the two men has meant that intimation notices cannot be followed
up regularly. Moreover the increase in cases going to court wastes
much valuable time of the inspector concerned and completes the
full circle starting with the inability of the depleted staff to see
that-notices are in fact complied with.
Nuisances on bombed sites are the cause of special difficulties
which seem to be insuperable. The sites cannot be fenced for lack
of materials nor can they be cleared because there is usually uncertainty
regarding war damage repair or some disposal difficulty
and they draw irresistibly every kind of unwanted rubbish in the
neighbourhood. The same applies to the static water tanks still