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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1929.
Total Sanitary Operations 71,028
Number of house inspections 39,039
House to house inspections 1,071
Bakehouse inspections 282
Bakehouse nuisances abated 40
Urinals—inspections 122
Do. altered, repaired or
water laid on 20
Intimations served under Sec.3 3,979
Notices served under Sec.4,&c. 1,504
Notices served under Sees.
62 & 65 2,926
Complaints received and
attended to 3,858
Number of premises disinfected 2,175
Houses supplied with disinfectants
710
Overcrowding abated 25
Premises improved, cleansed
and repaired 3,009
Drains tested ... By smoke 581
Do. ... „ water 1,312
Drains cleansed and repaired 301
Drains relaid 119
Frontage drains constructed
or re-constructed 30
Soil pipes and drains ventilated 114
Sink and rain-water pipes
disconnected or repaired 297
Water closets cleansed and
repaired 793
Cesspools abolished 1
Mews and stables drained and
paved —
Yards and forecourts paved
and repaired 271
Accumulations of manure and
other obnoxious matter removed
or proper receptacles
provided 27
Dust receptacles provided 639
Leaky house-roofs and gutters
repaired 744
Houses supplied with water
and fittings repaired 196
Houses let in separate tenements
on register 60
No. of inspections of do. 957
Water closets provided,
supplied with water or
supply disconnected from
drinking water cisterns 71
Cisterns covered, cleansed and
repaired 115
Additional water supplies to
upper floors 39
Keeping of animals in unfit
state discontinued 7
Smoke observations 23
Certificates of disinfection
granted 3,637
Houses inspected and certificates
granted (Sec. 48) 30
Proceedings ordered by Council
and Health Committee 4,019
Summonses issued 59
Magisterial Orders obtained
and enforced 34
Factories, Workshops, &c.,
inspections 3,541
Sanitary conveniences provided
or improvements
effected in Factories and
Workshops (Sec. 38) 82
Underground sleeping rooms :
Use discontinued —
Defects remedied 12
Gipsy van inspections 37
Drains laid to new houses and
tenements 30
Samples taken under the Food
and Drugs Adulteration Act 1,200
Miscellaneous 1,464