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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections 13.902
Total number of reinspections 28,385
Total number of intimation notices served 4.778
Total number of nuisance notices served 2,075
Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections (factories,
workplaces, infectious disease, etc.) 2,074
Total number of revisits 294
Total number of intimation notices served 47
Total number of nuisance notices served 1
Workshops in which defects were found 47
The lot of the owner of ageing property is one of hardship
so great that numbers are unable to find money to carry out the
repairs required by the sanitary notices. In such cases after
the order of the Court has been ignored the Council step in and
do the work themselves and recover the cost by collecting the
rent. At the end of the year there were 58 cases outstanding
from which some €4,320 was owing, while in the 24 other cases the
estimated cost of works approved but not yet completed was £1,690
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS PERSONS
Cleansing Centre.
A total of 249 persons were treated at the cleansing station
and given 304 treatments, compared with 231 persons treated in
the previous year.
The number of cases of scabies notified. 43. compares with
40 in 1950. 68 in 1949, 125 in 1948, 310 in 1947. 758 in 1946
and 851 in 1945. More settled conditions of life and modern
treatments have both conduced to this end.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACTS. 1948 and 1951
Section 47. Removal to suitable premises of persons in need of
care and attention.
It is a relief to report that it was not necessary for any
certificates to be made out for the removal and detention of any
person during the year. There were a few cases in which it was
feared that action would become necessary, but happily all died
in the peace and comfort of their home surroundings.