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The last item includes the cleansing of walls and ceilings and the disinfestation of verminous
rooms in every case where found necessary.
At the end of 1923, 52 of the houses inspected in that year by the Temporary Sanitary
Inspector had been brought up to the highest standard which could be enforced under the Public
Health Act and the By-laws made thereunder and were transferred from the care of the Temporary
Inspector to the Inspector in charge of the district. The number of houses brought up to that
standard and transferred in 1924 was 509 and in 1925, 617.
At the end of 1925, work was in progress at a number of houses and 63 of these were brought
up to standard and handed over to the District Inspector in the first few weeks of 1926. The
remedies secured in these cases will be recorded in the report for 1926.
(3) Improvements in Houses Let in Lodgings on the Register on 1st January, 1923.
In February, 1923, each of the ten District Sanitary Inspectors commenced the work of
inspecting each month ten of the "tenement" houses on the Register at the beginning of 1923.
After each inspection, necessary Intimation Notices were served and the details were reported to the
fortnightly meetings of the Public Health Committee who gave directions for the issue of any
Statutory Notices required to bring the houses up to the standard of babitability prescribed in
the Council's 1923 Housing Policy. This work was in addition to the normal routine duties carried
out by the ten District Sanitary Inspectors.
Nine hundred and twelve houses were dealt with in 1923 and 1,003 in 1924, leaving 254, the
inspection of which was completed in the early months of 1925.