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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA.
The District is divided into three areas, having its own Sanitary
Inspector who also acts as Inspector under the Petroleum Acts.
A fourth Inspector carries out house-to-house inspection.
The Woman Sanitary Inspector looks after out-workers' premises,
the sanitary condition of factories where women are employed, supervision
of the premises where ice-cream is made or sold, women's lavatories,
the supervision of home-nursed cases of the notifiable infectious
complaints and the investigation of these latter diseases, including tuberculosis.
The Senior Sanitary Inspector supervises the work of the District
and is also Inspector under the Canal Boats Acts.
The following tabular statement gives the number and the nature of
the inspections made during the year :—
Complaints1,094
Infectious Diseases 492
Tuberculosis 243
House-to-house 156
Factories 149
Workshops 53
Workplaces -
Outworkers 110
Schools 27
Offensive Trades 81
Smoke Observations 127
Sanitary Conveniences, Urinals 502
Stables 39
Piggeries 67
Gipsies 63
Petroleum 141
General Inspections 432
Reinspections 5,223
Sundry Visits 1,875
Cinemas and Halls 24
Visits to Canal 24
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