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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1926.
Total Sanitary Operations 62,418
Number of house inspections 32,594
House to house inspections 676
Bakehouse inspections 273
Bakehouse nuisances abated 63
Urinals—inspections 130
Do. altered, repaired or
water laid on 52
Intimations served under Sec.3 3,006
Notices served under Sec.4,&c. 750
Notices served under Secs.
62 & 65 6,478
Complaints received and
attended to 3,341
Number of premises disinfected 2,516
Houses supplied with disinfectants
1,102
Overcrowding abated 5
Premises improved, cleansed
and repaired 2,484
Drains tested By smoke 621
Do. ,, water 1,132
Drains cleansed and repaired 268
Drains relaid 110
Frontage drains constructed
or re-constructed 22
Soil pipes and drains ventilated 120
Sink and rain-water pipes
disconnected or repaired 413
Water Closets cleansed and
repaired 522
Cesspools abolished —
Mews and Stables drained and
paved 4
Yards and forecourts paved
and repaired 288
Accumulations of manure and
other obnoxious matter removed
or proper receptacles
provided 22
Dust receptacles provided 502
Leaky house-roofs and gutters
repaired 756
Houses supplied with water
and fittings repaired 170
Houses let in lodgings registered 85
No. of inspections of do. 44
Water Closets provided,
supplied with water or
supply disconnected from
drinking water cisterns 184
Cisterns covered, cleansed and
repaired 118
Additional water supplies to
upper floors 31
Keeping of animals in unfit
state discontinued 4
Smoke observations 59
Certificates of disinfection
granted 3,224
Houses inspected and certificates
granted (Sec. 48) 31
Proceedings ordered by Council
and Health Committee 3,044
Summonses issued 53
Magisterial Orders obtained
and enforced 12
Factories, Workshops, Sec.,
inspections 4,909
Sanitary conveniences provided
or improvements
effected in Factories and
Workshops (Sec. 38) 94
Underground sleeping rooms :
Use discontinued —
Defects remedied —
Gipsy van inspections 35
Drains laid to new houses and
tenements 31
Samples taken under the Sale
of Food and Drugs Acts 1,200
Miscellaneous 1,786