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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of Inspections 14,009
Total number of reinspections 23,875
Total number of intimation notices served 2,972
Total number of nuisance notices served 1,639
Women Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of visits and inspections (factories
workplaces, infectious disease, etc.) 1,975
Total number of revisits 378
Total number of intimation notices served 61
Total number of nuisance notices served 1
Workshops in which defects were found 12
Restaurants 47
Old and Infirm persons living in insanitary conditions 7
The cost of repairs looms heavier than ever upon the unfortunate
owner of aging property. Care is taken to limit as far as possible
the work entailed by sanitary notices but the burden is out of
proportion to the rent paid and still more to the net income
received by the owner. The Council where Court Orders are ignored,
themselves step in and carry out the repairs collecting the rents
to recoup themselves and registering a charge upon the property.
At the end of the year there were 65 cases outstanding from which
some £5,054 was owing while in 21 others the estimated cost of
works approved but not completed was £1,895.
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS PERSONS
Cleansing Centre.
A total of 321 persons were treated at the cleansing station
and given 390 treatments, compared with 343 persons treated in the
previous year.
The number of cases of scabies notified, 30, compares with
36 in 1952, 43 in 1951, 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.
In no case was it necessary to apply for an order for the
compulsory removal of any aged person to an institution.