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Inspections
The total number of inspections made during the year was
16,634. At 706 of the houses and other premises visited, defects
or nuisances to the number of 2,178 were discovered, and at the
end of the year 2,555 including a number outstanding at the end
of 1951 had been remedied or abated. The work in connection with
276 was in hand and 1,230 were outstanding. In order to ascertain
that the sanitary defects were being properly remedied 1,607 visits
were paid to the respective premises while the work was in progress.
I must again draw attention to the difficulty which owners of
rent controlled property are having in meeting the present day
costs of repairs, resulting in a large number of cases in the
deterioration of the houses.