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Inspections
The total number of inspections made during the year was
16,304. At 920 of the houses and other premises visited, defects
or nuisances to the number of 2,998 were discovered, and at the
end of the year 3,109 including a number outstanding at the end
of 1950 had been remedied or abated. The work in connection with
428 was in hand and 1,883 were outstanding. In order to ascertain
that the santitary defects were being properly remedied 1,537 visits
were paid to the respective premises while the work was in progress.
With costs of labour and materials still rising it is becoming
increasingly difficult for owners of rent-controlled dwellings to
carry out the work necessary to keep the premises in a reasonable
state of repair and the time is approaching when many properties
requiring major works cannot be repaired at reasonable cost.
The total number of inspections made in regard to each section
of work is recorded below, together with a summary of the sanitary
improvements carried out:
Inspections under Housing Acts 52
Special Inspections 3,992
Reinspections 3,127
Inspections of Works in Progress 1,537
Inspections of Factories and Workplaces (including Bakehouses
and Restaurant Kitchens) 500
Visits to Slaughterhouses 9
Inspections of Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 24
Inspections of Ice Cream Premises 71
Inspections of Meat, Fish and other Food Shops 856
Inspections of Shops (Shops Act) 75
Visits re Infectious Disease and Vermin 667
Visits re Rodent Control 4,611
Visits re Housing Act, 1936 175
Visits re Building Licences 40
Visits re Hawkers 59
Visits to Hairdressers' Premises 6
Visits to Houses let in lodgings 18
Miscellaneous 485
16,304
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