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Sanitary Inspection of the Borough.
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there are now 11 District Inspectors in place of 10. As a
result of this change it has been possible to make a slight
reduction in the size of several of the districts which were
too large to be worked efficiently. The District Inspectors
are no longer responsible for the supervision of food premises
in their districts, but on the other hand they have to carry
out all the house to house inspections, the majority of which
before reorganisation, were done by the Housing Inspector.
3. The post of female Sanitary Inspector has been
abolished and the inspectorial duties which these two Officers
carried out have been divided among the 11 District Inspectors.
The two ladies concerned are now whole time
Health Visitors, so that the change is equivalent to a fractional
increase in the staff of Health Visitors.
Table XXIX. gives a summary of the sanitary operations
carried out in the Borough during the year.
During the year the number of drains which were tested
was 1,866, and of these 617 were found to be in a defective condition.
The drains of 99 houses were re-constructed.
Damp conditions have been remedied in 1,096 premises, and
in 159 of these damp courses were inserted.
The collection of house refuse is in the hands of the Borough
Surveyor as heretofore.
It will be seen from this Table that 14 cases of overcrowding
were abated. In addition to these many further instances of
overcrowding were brought to the notice of the Department,
but owing to the shortage of housing accommodation it was not
possible to remedy the conditions found.