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Inspections
The total number of inspections made during the year was
13,993. At 555 of the houses and other premises visited, defects or
nuisances to the number of 2,076 were discovered, and at the end of
the year 1,631 including a number outstanding at the end of 1954
had been remedied or abated. The work in connection with 347
was in hand and 1,482 were outstanding. In order to ascertain that
the sanitary defects were being properly remedied 1,188 visits were
paid to the respective premises while the work was in progress.
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 215
Special Inspections 3,775
Re-inspections 2,553
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 33
Inspections of Works in Progress 1,188
Inspections of Factories and Workplaces (including Bakehouses
and Restaurant Kitchens) 523
Visits to Slaughterhouses 419
Inspections of Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 19
Inspections of Ice Cream Premises 75
Inspections of Meat, Fish and Other Food Shops 523
Inspections of Shops (Shops Act) 180
Visits re Infectious Disease and Vermin 300
Visits re Rodent Control 3,581
Visits re Housing Act, 1936 66
Visits re Hawkers 20
Visits to Hairdressers' Premises 23
Visits re Pet Animals Act, 1951 6
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