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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections 13,119
Total number of reinspections 20,531
Total number of intimation notices served 2,791
Total number of nuisance notices served 1,579
Women Sanitary Inspectors
Total number of visits and inspections (factories
workplaces, infectious disease, etc.) 1,920
Total number of revisits 401
Total number of intimation notices served 51
Total number of nuisance notices served
Workshops in which defects were found 5
Restaurants 42
Old and Infirm persons living in insanitary conditions 4
The cost of repairs particularly to old property remains a
serious problem both for owners and for the Council who themselves
carry out the necessary work when a Court Order is ignored,
collecting rents to recoup themselves and registering a charge
upon the property. At the end of the year there were 90 cases
outstanding from which some £6,486 was owing while in 23 others
the estimated cost of works approved but not completed was £2,237.
It was anticipated that the opportunity of obtaining higher rent
envisaged by the Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954 would be
seized by large numbers of owners of property and that the
publicity given to the grants obtainable under the Housing Act
1949 would lead to a spate of applications. In fact the numbers
applying were remarkably few. Details will be found elsewhere
in the report.
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS PERSONS
Cleansing Centre
A total of 323 persons were treated at the cleansing station
and given 428 treatments, compared with 321 persons treated in
the previous year.
The number of cases of scabies notified, 48, compares with
30 in 1953, 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 person in need
of care and protection
In no case was it necessary to apply for an order for the
compulsory removal of any aged person to an institution.