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The demand from families evicted or threatened with eviction shows signs of
improvement but emergency accommodation in Half-Way Houses is not always available
and, although 25 families were helped during 1954, in a number of other instances it
proved impossible to assist.
The following table sets out the number of housing applicants assisted during
the year ending 31st December, 1954.
(1) Number of families rehoused in permanent accommodation:-
(a) Pre-war houses, etc. 27
(b) Post-war houses, etc. 192
(c) Temporary bungalows 6
225
(2) Transfers arranged to relieve overcrowding on Council
Estates 182
(3) Number of families rehoused in requisitioned property 36
(4) Number of families given emergency accommodation in
Half-Way Houses 25"
SANITARY INSPECTION.
The following summary of the inspection work, together with a report on the
various duties performed by the Sanitary Inspectors has been submitted to me by
Mr. A. H. Smith, Chief Sanitary Inspector.
Daring the year under review inspections were carried out as set out below:-
Inspections made 7,014
Re-inspections after order or notice 12,556
Complaints received and investigated 1,562
Bakehouses 106
Butchers Shops 320
Caravans 157
Dairies 41
Drain tests 273
Factories 210
Hawkers and Food Delivery Vans 62
Hawkers Storage Premises and Stalls
Ice Cream Samples 34
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