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It is apparent from these figures that there remains a considerable task
confronting those concerned in reducing the Illegitimate Infant Mortality
Rate.
SANITARY ADMINISTRATION.
Staff.
The Council now employs nine Sanitary Inspectors. This is slightly
below the pre-war figure which was nine, plus a woman Inspector 60 per
cent, of whose time was devoted to Sanitary work.
Inspections.
The following brief statement shows the number and details of premises
inspected by the Sanitary Inspectors during the year: —
(1) Total number of premises inspected 7,271
(2) Total number of re-inspections and other visits and
revisits 11,982
(3) Number of inspections (recorded in (1) above) in respect
of:—
(a) Dwelling-houses for housing defects :—
(i) Non-tenement houses 1,216
(ii) Tenement houses 346
(b) Factories, excluding bakehouses 186
(c) Infestation Order, 1943 (excluding revisits) 668
(d) Food premises :—
(i) Bakehouses 38
(ii) Milk premises 80
(iii) Restaurants and eating houses 140
(iv) Other food premises 483
741
(e) Shops (under Shops Act, 1934) 183
The balance of the number of inspections is made up of visits in connection
with infectious diseases and " contacts flooding; checking of
re-housing applications; maintenance of requisitioned premises, voluntary
drainage work, etc.
The total number of complaints received was 2,284 of which 668
referred to rat infestation.
2,641 informal notices (i.e., intimations) relating to 1,493 premises and
890 statutory-notices relating to 551 premises were served during the year.