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SECTION E
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION
Staff.
The establishment of Sanitary Inspectors consists of the
Senior Sanitary Inspector, a Deputy Senior Sanitary Inspector
and 10 other district Inspectors, two Food and Drugs Inspectors
and one woman Inspector.
One district Inspector also acts as Inspector in charge of
rodent control operations. There were four resignations during
the year, but only two of these were replaced, with great difficulty
and loss of time.
Exhumation and Re-interment of Bodies.
During the year five licences were granted by the Secretary
of State for the exhumation and removal of six bodies from graves
in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
Each of these was attended by the local district Inspector
and in each case it was possible to certify that the removal was
carried out in a proper manner.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Restrictions Acts, 1920/1939.
The Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954.
The Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954, came into
operation on the 30th August, 1954. The Act is described as
"An Act to make further provision for the clearance and redevelopment
of areas of unfit housing accommodation, and for
securing or promoting the reconditioning and maintenance of
houses and otherwise to amend the enactments relating to
housing, the exercise of certain powers relating to land, and rent
control."
Part I contains further Provisions as to Clearance and
Redevelopment, Reconditioning of Unfit Houses, and other
Amendments of Housing Acts.
The local authority is required to submit proposals for the
exercise of its functions as to clearance areas, etc., to the
Minister within one year from the commencement of the Act
subject to the Minister's power to extend the time in exceptional
circumstances.