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SANITARY INSPECTION.
The following summary of the inspection work, together with a report on the
various duties performed by the Public Health Inspectors, has been submitted to me
by Mr. A. H. Smith, Chief Public Health Inspector.
Djring the year under review inspections were carried out as set out below:-
Inspections made 6,462
Re-inspections after order or notice 12,900
Complaints received and investigated 1,667
Bakehouses 82
Butchers Shops 425
Caravans 137
Dairies 25
Drains tests 325
Factories 139
Hawkers and food delivery vans )
Hawkers storage premises and stalls)
Ice Cream samples 13
Ice Cream premises 12
Infectious Disease 314
Licensed Premises 108
Milk Samples 128
Other food shops 986
Overcrowding 18
Outworkers 94
Piggeries 18
Public entertainment in connection with licensing 109
Restaurants, cafes, etc. 315
Smoke observations 188
Stables 18
Swimming baths 14
Pet Animals Act, 1951 18
Hairdressers and Barbers premises 28
Notices served.
Informal or cautionary 788
Complied with 708
Statutory Notices
Applied for 195
Served under Public Health Acts 91
Outstanding from 1955 16
Complied with during 1956 84
Outstanding at end of 1956 25
Inspection of Dwelling Houses During 1956.
Total number of dwellinghouses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health and Housing Acts) 1,626
Number of inspections made for the purpose 4,766
Number of dwellinghouses found not to be in all
respects reasonably fit for human habitation 534
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