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Normally the trade, both large undertakings and small cafe proprietors,
have co-operated willingly with this Department and in the
majority of cases have endeavoured faithfully to carry out the recommendations
of the Sanitary Inspectors. In regard to five establishments
only was it necessary to resort to legal proceedings, in three of which
conditions were considered to be so unsatisfactory as to warrant the
institution of proceedings immediately, without the service of the usual
informal notice. Two of these unsatisfactory premises eventually closed
down. The City Council were successful in these proceedings.
It has been found that an increasing proportion of the Inspectors'
time has been taken up with the inspection of premises in respect of
which application has been made for a catering licence, and in the supervision
of the works necessary to properly adapt premises which were
being put into commission for the first time for use as a restaurant, snack
bar, or staff canteen, etc. During the year 287 premises were inspected
and schedules of work prepared and forwarded to applicants for catering
licences. It has been considered that the supervision of all new works
in premises should take priority of the Inspectors' time but this work
has of necessity reduced the number of routine inspections of existing
premises.