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Sanitary Services
Summary of Visits, 1949
Inspections re complaints received 788
Re-visits in connection therewith 3,241
Visits to Food Premises (including butchers, bakehouses,
cafes, restaurants, fishshops and dairies) 1,273
Inspections re Shops Acts, 1912/34 131
Inspections re Factories 365
Visits re housing conditions and overcrowding (applicants
for housing accommodation) 560
Visits re Infectious Diseases 959
Visits re Places of Public Entertainment 40
Visits re Rats and Mice Destruction Act, 1919 1,452
Miscellaneous Visits 4,832
13,641
Service of Notices:—
Total informal sanitary notices served 585
Total informal dustbin notices served 260
Total informal notices served 845
Total informal notices complied with 1,008
Total statutory notices served 131
Total statutory notices complied with 107
Repairs to Houses:—
Considerable work has been carried out by the Sanitary
Inspectors during the year in connection with repairs to houses.
As in previous years, the Inspectors have found that lack of
maintenance work carried out to houses during the war years has
necessitated the service upon owners of a substantial number of
notices calling for repairs of a major character.
Of the 631 intimation notices complied with, no less than
318 required major repairs. The repairs carried out at these
houses included the provision of damp-proof courses, extensive
rendering of walls to remedy dampness, provision of site concrete,
under-pinning of walls, renewal of eaves gutters, and extensive
renewal of wall and ceiling plaster. In seven houses it was found
necessary to require the taking down and rebuilding on new
foundations of one or more main or back addition walls owing
to serious settlement.
At the remaining 313 houses the repairs were not of such an
extensive character, but works had to be carried out in order to
abate specific nuisances.
It is, I think, worthy of note that, in their efforts to secure
the maintenance of a reasonable standard in the condition of
houses within the Borough, the Inspectors have, by their
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