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SANITATION AND HOUSING.
The following figures give a bare outline of the
work of the sanitary inspectors during the year.
Outstanding features are the welcome reduction in
the number of infectious disease visits and the substantial
fall in the number of drainage work inspections
while on the other hand more house to house
inspections were made and more visits paid to factories
and workshops. One figure which tends to
increase from year to year is that of "complaints,"
a reflection of two things : (a) the ageing and very
unsatisfactory character of much of the housing
in the borough, and (b) the rising sanitary standards
of the people who rightly refuse to tolerate bad conditions.
SANITARY SUPERVISION OF THE BOROUGH
A Summary of Inspections and Visits, with Matters Outstanding,
Fon THE 52 WEEKS ended 28th december, 1935.
Nature of Visits
Totals
Infectious Diseases (notifiable)
914
Infectious Diseases (non-notifiable)
031
Food Poisoning
—
Complaints .
5,358
House to House Inspections
988
Milkshops (500) and Cowsheds (48) Inspections
548
Other Food Premises Inspections (Slaughterhouses 19, Poultry 174,
Others 1307)
1,500
Factory (1,025) and Workshops (1,815) Inspections
2,840
Outworkers' Homes Inspections
527
Common Lodging House Inspections
24
Tenement House Inspections
385
Drair.age Inspections .
2,972
Smoke Nuisances—Premises under observation
86
Other Inspections or Special Work
6,196
Re-Inspections
19,987
Total visits for the Year
43,902
Unsound Food Seizures (0) or Surrenders (10)
16
Samples of Food, etc., taken
713
Samples of Rag Flock taken
21
Police Court Attendances
65
Premises where Nuisances abated
5.893
Premises where Matters Outstanding
989