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been adopted in Hampstead, and payment to the Domestic Helps at the
rate of 1s. 9¾d. an hour, which was agreed.
Contact has been made with the Ministry of Labour, and advertisements
have been inserted in the Local Press, but so far it has not been
possible to inaugurate a scheme for Domestic Helps, since no applicants
have been forthcoming. Every effort is being made to recruit suitable
women for this work.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Inspectorial Staff.—Mr. E. Wall resigned on being appointed as
Sanitary Inspector to the Wandsworth Borough Council.
Mr. R. Staples was still on Naval Service at the end of the year.
Further devastation caused by long-range rockets early in the year
resulted in the temporary upheaval of the normal work of sanitary
inspection and the services of the Sanitary Inspectors were again fully
utilised in connection with post-raid services, particularly those of
rehousing and food salvage.
Inspections.
The following statement affords an indication of the normal sanitary
work performed by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year:—
(1) Total number of premises inspected 4,103
(2) Total number of reinspections and other visits and
revisits 9,104
(3) Number of inspections (recorded in (1) above) in respect
of:—
(a) Dwelling-houses for housing defects :—
(i) Non-tenement houses 621
(ii) Tenement houses 257
(b) Factories, excluding bakehouses 156
(c) Infestation Order, 1943 (excluding revisits) 849
(d) Food premises :—
(i) Bakehouses 39
(ii) Milk premises 112
(iii) Restaurants and eating houses 279
(iv) Other food premises 736
1,166
(e) Shops (under Shops Act, 1934) 117
The total number of complaints received was 2,084, of which 804
referred to rat infestation.
Nine hundred and one informal notices (i.e., intimations) relating to
703 premises and 441 statutory notices relating to 287 premises were
served during the year.
It was found necessary to institute legal proceedings for noncompliance
with a statutory notice in one case only. The nuisance was
subsequently abated and the summons withdrawn on payment of
costs.
Housing.
1. Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing defects
(under Public Health or Housing Acts) 878
2. Number of dwelling-houses (included in (1) above) which were
inspected and recorded under the Housing Consolidated
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