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10,
Nature of defects remedied at
Factories:-
Sanitary Accommodation.
Insufficient 1
Unsuitable or defective 43
Not separate for sexes
Improperly ventilated
or unventilated 24
Want of cleanliness 68
Inadequate ventilation 7
Ineffective drainage
of floors
Inadequate lighting 5
Other offences 29
WATER
SWIMMING POOLS,
At the Council's swimming pools the water is treated by modern purification
and filtration plant. Tests for chlorine content are triads daily.
A privately owned swimming pool is fitted with filtration and purification
plants and tests for chlorine content are also made daily.
report on the examination of a sample of the pool water taken for
bacteriological examination showed the water to be highly satisfactory#
HOUSING.
Individual unfit houses.
No demolition order was made by the Local Authority and no house was found
to be in a state so dangerous ,or injurious to health,as to be unfit for human
habitation.
Inspection of dwelling-houses during the Year:-
Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts.) 1178
Number of inspections made for the purpose. 3774
Number of dwelling-houses found not to bo in all
respects reasonably fit for human habitation. 837
Remedy of defects without service of Formal Notices:
Number of dwelling-houses rendered fit in consequence
of informal action by the Local Authority or their
officers. 708
Proceedings under Public Health Acts:-
Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which notices
were served requiring defects to be remedied. 16
Number of dwelling-houses in which defects were remedied
after service of formal notices:-
(a) By Owner 15
(b) By Local Authority in default of Owners.