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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
The improvement during the year in the previous serious
staffing difficulties of the Sanitary Inspectors' Department is
reflected in a very considerable increase in the work of this
section. The following details represent over 1,600 more inspections
of drainage and complaints, and 1,500 more visits to food
premises than in 1948, whilst the total of works completed
shews an increase of 670 over the previous year.
SUMMARY OF INSPECTIONS CARRIED OUT
DURING THE YEAR
Inspections upon receipt of complaint 6,181
Drainage and miscellaneous inspections 3,653
Inspection of Factories 319
Inspection of Outworkers 52
Inspection of Common Lodging Houses 39
Rehousing visits 2,298
Housing Act Inspections 1,009
Smoke Observations .14
Rodent visits (Sanitary Inspectors) 333
Inspection of Slaughterhouses 4
Inspection of Offensive Trades Premises 30
Inspection and food sampling visits, shops and markets 1,636
Inspection and sampling visits, Catering and Ice Cream Premises 840
Inspection of food at Wharves and Warehouses 1,319
Visits to Bakehouses 115
Visits to Fried Fish Shops 37
Visits to Fish Curers'premises 11
Revisits 18 189
NOTICES
Intimation Notices served 3,579
Statutory Notices served 1,414
Defects in Council controlled property reported to Housing Manager 169
Notices complied with 3,397
RENT & MORTGAGE INTEREST RESTRICTIONS
ACTS, 1920-1939
Sixty-one certificates as to the state of repair of dwelling
houses were issued during the year under the above Acts.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES
There are four women's and two men's common lodging
houses in the Borough, which are fully occupied nightly.
Thirty-nine inspections of these premises were made by the
Sanitary Inspectors during the year, 14 of men's lodging houses
and 25 of women's.