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Section IV—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISTRICT.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Inspections.—Altogether 73,154 inspections, including 3,759 inspections in connection
with Ministry of Food Orders, were made in 1920 by the staff of Inspectors and Visitors.
These consisted of 40,317 initial inspections (including the 3,759 Food Control inspections),
and 32,837 re-inspections.
Of these inspections, 42,742 were made by the District Sanitary Inspectors, 7,366 by
the Sanitary Inspectors for Food and Food places, 2,604 by the Sanitary Inspector for
Factories and Workshops, and 20,442 by the Women Sanitary Inspectors and Health
Visitors.
The inspections made by each individual Inspector and Visitor are shown in table 10,
on page 97.
The work of the various classes of Inspectors and Visitors is set out in tables 7, 8 and
9, on pages 93 to 96.
The inspections dealt with above are exclusive of the visits made by the Council's
staff at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres (see page 17), and by the staff of the
Tuberculosis Dispensaries (see page 38) ; nor do they include the work of the disinfecting
staff (see pa ere 31).
These intimations are classified in tables 11, 12, 13 and 14, on pages 98 and
99.
1,862 Statutory notices (comprising 3,027 items) were served during 1920 and the
early part of 1921, following non-compliance with these intimation notices. These are also
classified in tables 11, 12, 13 and 14, on pages 98 and 99.
The following prosecutions were undertaken during the year in respect of general
sanitary work :—