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Inspections
The total number of inspections made during the year was
11,599. At 272 of the houses and other premises visited, defects or
nuisances to the number of 839 were discovered, and at the end of
the year 834 including a number outstanding at the end of 1958 had
been remedied or abated. The work in connection with 83 was in
hand and 1,395 were outstanding. In order to ascertain that the
sanitary defects were being properly remedied, 726 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 42
Other Inspections including Inspections under Public Health
Act, 1936 3,375
Re-Inspections 1,693
Inspections under Rent Act, 1957 113
Inspections of Works in Progress 726
Inspections of Factories and Workplaces (including Bakehouses
and Restaurant Kitchens) 279
Visits to Slaughterhouses 14
Inspections of Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops 10
Inspections of Ice Cream Premises 22
Inspections of Meat, Fish and Other Food Shops 498
Inspections of Shops (Shops Act) 94
Visits re Infectious Disease and Vermin 393
Visits re Rodent Control 3,039
Visits re Overcrowding 141
Visits re Hawkers 48
Visits to Hairdressers' Premises 10
Visits re Pet Animals Act, 1951 7
Visits re Heating Appliances—Fireguards 23
Visits re Clean Air Act, 1956 478
Miscellaneous 594
11,599
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