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Welfare Association, and subsidised financially by the Council,
who also provide the skilled medical and nursing assistance : —
1947. 1946.
New Cases attending a Centre for
the first time 5,098 4,558
Total attendances of all cases 87,653 77,941
Consultations with doctor 27,115 23,407
Average attendance per session 71.3 68.7
As the Chief Sanitary Inspector has remarked in his introductory
letter, housing work has been largely, through force of
post-war circumstances, confined to the dealing with complaints.
Owners, as well as tenants, have got into the habit of asking for
sanitary inspections so as to facilitate obtaining the necessary
licences to permit of essential repairs being carried out. The
inspectors inspected 11,372 houses during the year and 9,521
informal notices were served on owners for the execution of
repairs. Of these 8,827 were complied with. Those not complied
with were referred for Statutory Orders. A total of 3,673 statutory
notices were served and of these 3,533 were complied with by
the end of the year; 1,648 were still outstanding. The number of
defective dwelling houses rendered fit was 7,724 without formal
notice. Of those the subject of statutory notices 3,100 were
rendered fit by the owners and 433 by the local authority in
default of the owners.
Food supplies were watched carefully; a total of 3,667 visits
were paid to premises in the borough at which food was known to
be sold, manufactured or stored. These premises number 2,821,
excluding slaughterhouses, dairies and farms, and milkshops.
A considerable amount of food of various kinds had to be
condemned as unfit for human consumption. This included
88,875 lbs. of beef, 3,371 lbs. of mutton, 105,418 lbs. of offal,
11,699 lbs. of fish, 7,768 lbs. of fruit and vegetables, and 41,223
lbs. of canned goods. The inspection of meat is carried out at
the Public Abattoir and at the Government Meat Depot. The
Abattoir was taken over by the Ministry of Food in November,
1946. During 1947 the Council's meat inspectors inspected a
total of 25,822 animals slaughtered at the abattoir. Of this number
94 carcases of cattle, 6 carcases of calves, 6 of sheep and 5 pigs
were condemned.