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22
Other Letters sent 11,243
Number of Certificates issued in connection with plans 3
Number of Certificates issued in connection with disinsection
8
Number of Certificates issued in connection with unsound
foods 538
Number of Requisitions for Information dealt with 1,477
Number of Certificates issued under Rent Restrictions
Act, 1933 32
Number of Essential Works Certificates issued 407
Result of Service of Statutory and Informal Notices:—
Statutory. Informal.
Number complied with 86 1,196
Number oustanding 55 397
141 1,593
TOTAL INSPECTIONS
One hundred and fifty-seven visits were paid in respect of
infectious diseases during the year, and the total number of inspections
and visits for all purposes made by the Sanitary Inspectors
were 17,405.
This is an increase on last year's figure, although the Department
lost the services of one of its Sanitary Inspectors in the early
part of 1946, and the vacancy thus occasioned was not filled until
the latter part of 1947.
The Inspector appointed to carry out the requirements of
Section 58 of the Housing Act, 1936, and the provisions of the
Shops Acts, 1912 to 1936, made the following number of visits
during the year :—
Housing Act, 1936 4,671
Shops Acts, 1912-1936 1,935
Total 6,606
DISINFECTION
Number of houses disinfected after infectious disease
and verminous cases 521
Number of articles of clothing, bedding, etc., disinfected 3,025
Number of Library books disinfected 128