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48
Totals
29. Manure: accumulation or deposit injurious to
health 19
30. Overcrowding 27
31. Basements Inspected 2,533
32. Rats infestation:
(a) Industrial premises 19
(b)Private premises 128
33. Refuse accumulations 149
34. Smoke Nuisance:
(a) from industrial premises 38
(b) from private premises 36
35. Stagnant Water: accumulation 24
36. Underground Rooms: occupied as a dwelling 1,697
37. Urinal: foul 21
38. Water Supply:
(a) cut off 80
(b) storage cistern so foul as to be a nuisance 9
In addition, the District Sanitary Inspectors carried out during
1934 routine duties connected with the inspection of unsound and
unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses, slaughter-houses,
cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores, ice-creameries, the
market thoroughfares, outside urinals of public-houses, smoke
abatement, the male public conveniences, factories and workshops,
and workplaces wherein males are employed, common lodginghouses,
offensive trades, houses let in lodgings, refuse and manure
depots, etc.
A great number of visits have been paid by the Inspectors in
connection with all the premises in which infectious diseases are
reported to have occurred. The opportunity afforded by such
official notifications is taken for an inspection of the sanitary state
of the property together with a test of the drains.
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920-33.
During the year 15 inspections were made and 15 certificates
granted. It should be noted that since the 1933 Act a certificate,
when applied for in accordance with the provisions of the Acts, must
be granted. The administrative latitude previously permissible is
now therefore curtailed.