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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.
During the year under review inspections were carried out as set out below:-
Inspections made 6,165
Re-inspections after order or notice 12,747
Complaints received and investigated 1,284
Bakehouses 96
Butchers Shops 241
Caravans 135
Clean Air Act Inspections 144
Dairies 20
Drain tests 222
Factories 92
Hawkers and food delivery vans) 27
Hawkers storage premises and stalls)
Ice Cream Samples 16
Ice Cream premises 36
Infectious Disease 365
Licensed premises 118
Milk samples 77
Other food shops 994
Overcrowding 13
Outworkers 48
Piggeries 17
Public entertainment in connection with licensing 81
Restaurants, cafes, etc. 348
Smoke observations 188
Stables 27
Swimming baths 20
Pet Animals Act 1951 15
Hairdressers and Barbers premises 44
Notices Served.
Informal or cautionary 732
Complied with 695
Statutory Notices.
Applied for 126
Served under Public Health Acts 69
Outstanding from 1956 10
Complied with during 1957 55
Outstanding at end of 1957 24
Inspection of Dwelling-Houses During 1957.
Total number of dwellinghouses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health Acts) 1,483
Number of inspections made for the purpose 3,915
Number of dwellinghouses found not to be in all
respects reasonably fit for human habitation 483
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