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Appendix 1. sanitary inspectors—inspections
and Complaints.
INSPECTIONS—General.
A total of 12,626 inspections were made during the year as
follows:—
7,775 to dwelling-houses (Public Health Acts)
253 „ dwelling-houses (Housing Acts)
98 „ bakers
177 „ butchers
201 „ cafés and restaurants
52 „ farms, dairies and cowsheds
103 „ fishmongers
76 „ greengrocers
120 „ grocers
77 „ piggeries
113 „ ice-cream
30 „ other food preparing premises
170 „ factories with mechanical power
224 „ factories without mechanical power
97 „ outworkers' premises
792 „ premises for rats and mice
238 ,, cases of infectious disease—general
177 „ cases of infectious disease—tuberculosis
144 „ movable dwellings
20 „ pickers' huts
19 „ smoke abatement
489 „ shops
425 „ unsound food
82 „ rivers and streams
674 „ miscellaneous
12,626
COMPLAINTS.
1,752 complaints were received and investigated. Where necessary
appropriate remedial action was taken. The complaints were as
follows:—
623 re general sanitary defects
28 „ keeping of animals
78 „ offensive accumulations
39 „ verminous premises
369 „ drainage
19 „ water supply
210 „ rats and mice
102 „ overcrowding
117 „ food
2 ,, rivers
97 „ dustbins
12 „ smoke
56 „ miscellaneous
1,752
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