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Dustbins.—Special inspections, following upon information
given by the Dustmen, continue to be made in all parts of the district
and amongst all classes of property with the object of effecting the
replacement of defective dustbins.
Altogether 286 premises were visited in this connection; 192
verbal notices, 45 preliminary notices and 6 statutory notices were
served.
These special inspections alone resulted in the provision of 242
new bins, which included a number of bins supplied following
notices served during 1932.

HOUSING.
Number of New Houses Erected during the Year 1933
(a) Total (including numbers given separately under (b)) 550
(b) With State assistance under the Housing Acts:—
(i) By the Local Authority Nil
(ii) By other bodies or persons Nil
House-to-House Inspection.—The Housing Schedule was
revised during 1933 and brought up to date. The effect of this
revision was to transfer certain houses from the biennial and quinquennial
to the annual and biennial lists, and to add several houses,
which had not previously appeared in the schedule, to the quinquennial
list. In some other cases houses which had been demolished
were removed from the list. The revised schedule appears in the
Table below.
Six hundred and forty-three houses were inspected and recorded
under the Housing Acts, as follows:—