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HOUSING INSPECTIONS
1.—Inspection of Dwelling houses during the year:—
(a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing
defects under Public Health or Housing Acts 1,282
(b) Inspections, made for the purpose 1,402
2.—Housing Act, 1936:
(a) Houses demolished as a result of formal procedure
Section 113
(b) Pafts of buildings closed (Section 12) 2
(c) Houses made fit as a result of informal notices preliminary
to formal procedure under Sections 9 & 12 2
3.—Public Health Acts:
Houses in which defects were remedied by owner after
service of formal notice 158
BYELAWS relating to houses intended or used for occupation by the
working classes and let in lodgings or occupied by members of
more than one family.
Four houses have been dealt with under these Byelaws during
the year and the following work carried out :—
4 (b) Water Supply 3
5 (6) Means of carrying off waste water 3
NOTICES
The Notices served during the year were as follows:—
Verbal Preliminary Statutory
Public Health and Housing Acts 76 935 175
Housing Byelaws — 3 1
Shops Acts 33 64 —
Food and Drugs Act — 124 —
Factories Act 8 18 5
Pet Animals Act, 1951 — 1 —
Prevention of Damage by Pests
Act, 1949 — 1 —
117 1,146 181
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