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Inspections
The total number of inspections made during the year was
13,657. At 323 of the houses and other premises visited, defects or
nuisances to the number of 830 were discovered, and at the end of
the year 1,008 including a number outstanding at the end of 1956
had been remedied or abated. The work in connection with 48 was
in hand and 1,624 were outstanding. In order to ascertain that the
sanitary defects were being properly remedied, 708 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 87
Other Inspections including Inspections under Public Health
Act, 1936 3,985
Re-inspections 2,613
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954, and Rent Act, 1957 176
Inspections of Works in Progress 708
Inspections of Factories and Workplaces (including Bakehouses
and Restaurant Kitchens) 239
Visits to Slaughterhouses 13
Inspections of Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 6
Inspections of Ice Cream Premises 10
Inspections of Meat, Fish and Other Food Shops 724
Inspections of Shops (Shops Act) 77
Visits re Infectious Disease and Vermin 298
Visits re Rodent Control 3,599
Visits re Overcrowding 213
Visits re Hawkers 45
Visits to Hairdressers' Premises 5
Visits re Pet Animals Act, 1951 13
Visits re Heating Appliances—Fireguards 36
Visits re Clean Air Act, 1956 169
Miscellaneous 641
13,657
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