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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections 10,0 22
Total number of reinspections 14.892
Total number of intimation notices served 2,091
Total number of statutory notices served 1, 149
Women Sanitary Inspectors
Total number of visits and inspections (factories
workplaces, infectious disease, etc) 2,055
Total number of intimation notices served 54
Total number of statutory notices served 1
Total number of revisits 418
Restaurants in which defects were found 44
Old and Infirm persons living in insanitary conditions 135
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 101 cases
outstanding from which some £6,721 was owing while in 25 others
the estimated cost of works approved but not completed was £2, 250.
The opportunity given to owners of property of obtaining
higher rent under the Housing Repai rs and Rents Act, 1954 did not,
as was envisaged, result in large numbers of applications for
Certificates of Disrepair and there were also remarkably few
applications for grants obtainable under the Housing Act, 1949.
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS PERSONS
Cleansing Centre.
A total of 254 persons were treated at the cleansing station
and given 357 treatments, compared with 323 persons treated in
the previous year.
The number of cases of scabies notified, 30 , compares with
48 in 1954, 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. Wore
settled conditions of life and moderntreatments 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 protection.
In only one case was it necessary to apply for an order for
the compulsory removal of an aged person to an institution.