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Sanitary Circumstances.
The following table sets out in summarised form the details
of the main work of the Department in relation to sanitation:-
Summary of Main Operations for the Year 1951.
Sanitary Operations.
Inspections—
Frontage drains constructed
or reconstructed
New houses 117
House-to-house —
New houses —certificates
issued re water supply 117
House let in separate
tenements
Houses —following
complaints 4,914
Houses supplied with
water and fittings repaired
Houses —following
infectious disease 3,313
Additional water supplies
to tenement houses
Gipsy vans 27
Water closets provided,
supplied with water,
or supply disconnected
from drinking water
cisterns 11
Comman Lodging
House
Public urinals and
chalets 82
Re-inspections 20,929
Water closets and urinals
cleansed and repaired 530
Other visits 2,729
Notices served —
Intimations 3,019
Drinking water cisterns
cleansed and repaired 137
Statutory (Sec. 197
and 200) 124
Rain-water and waste
pipes disconnected or
repaired 308
Statutory (Fifth
Schedule) 1,692
Soil pipes and drains
ventilated 30
Summonses issued 215
Magisterial Orders obtained
79
Defective roofs and
gutters repaired 1,445
Drains laid to new houses 117
Dustbins provided 17
Drains relaid (wholly or
partly) 16
Yards paved or repaired 213
Premises disinfected 909
Persons cleansed (including
1,858 children) 2,058
Drains cleansed and
repaired ... ... 247
Drains tested (smoke) 94
Articles disinfected 49,824
Found defective 33
Rat repression-
Premises infested 248
Drains tested (water) 844
Drainage plans received 79
Inspections 2,520
Protection of Food Supply.
Inspections—
Inspections—contd.
Butchers' and other
Dairies and milk shops 287
Ice cream premises 490
food shops 936
Fish shops 278
Restaurant kitchens 953
Food storage
premises 143
Samples taken 1,200
Summonses issued 10
Factories, Workshops and Shops.
Inspections—
Inspections—contd.
Shops 38
Smoke observations 179
do. (Pharmacy Act) 36
Intimation notices
served 44
Factories 1,954
Outworkers 1,262
Statutory notices served 2