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Section A. All infant welfare centre is situated in the middle
of it, a health visitor, a school nurse and a sanitary inspector
spend a great deal of time among the families, and everything
possible is done to educate the inhabitants in the simple principles
of personal hygiene. It is certain that the work undertaken
by the Town Council is beginning to show some return in
an improvement in the general condition cf this area. At the
same time it cannot be denied that many of the tenants of
Section A. are of a class that can be housed satisfactorily only
in property subject to frequent inspection and rigid control.
House-to-house Inspection.—The following table gives a
comparison of post-war and pre-war conditions as a result of
house-to-house inspeotions in a number of roads: —
Pre-war. Post-war.
Number of houses inspected 121 121
Average number of rooms per house 5.6 5.6
Total number of families 169 133
Total number of persons over 10 years 519 579
Total number of persons under 10 years 162 90
Average number of persons per house 4.9 5.0
Average number of persons per room 0.95 0.93
Average number of persons per room
used for sleeping 1.7 1.7
Number of houses with more than
2 persons per room 0 0
Number of houses with more than
2.5 persons per bedroom 5 9
Number of houses sub-let 36 45
(N.B.—A child under 10 years is counted as 0.5 person.)
inspection and supervision of food.
Milk.—The following are the registration and licensing
figures for 1926 : —
Premises registered as milk-shops 40
Licensed pasteurizing plants 2
Premises licensed for sale of "Pasteurized
Milk " 18
Premises licensed to sell " Certified Milk " 6
Premises licensed to sell " Grade A (tuberculin
tested) Milk " 1