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Sanitary Services
Summary of Visits, 1953
Inspections re complaints received 1,041
Visits in connection therewith ... ... ... ... 3,895
Visits to Food Premises (including butchers, bakehouses,
cafes, restaurants, grocers and fish shops) 1,880
Inspections re Shops Act 1950 ... ... ... ... 280
Inspections re Factories ... ... ... ... 218
Visits re housing conditions and over-crowding (applicants
for housing accommodation) ... ... 117
Visits re Infectious Diseases ... ... ... ... 1,235
Visits re Places of Public Entertainment 40
Visits re Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949 ... 1,469
Visits re Smoke Observations 46
Miscellaneous Visits ... ... ... ... ... 4,490
14,711
Service of Notices
Total Informal Notices served ... . . ... 495
Total Informal Dustbin Notices served ... ... ... 233
Total Informal Notices served ... ... ... ... 728
Total Informal Notices complied with ... ... ... 710
Total Statutory Notices served ... ... ... ... 77
Total Statutory Notices complied with ... ... ... 66
Repairs to Houses
Considerable work has been carried out by the Sanitary
nspectors during the year in connection with repairs to houses. As
result of their efforts, repairs were carried out to 532 houses. Of
hese, the repairs to 135 houses were of a major character. At the
smaining 397 houses, the repairs were not of such an extensive
ature but were necessary to abate specific nuisances.
It is, I think, worthy of note that the repairs referred to above
ere carried out mainly as a result of informal action on the part of
ie Inspectors. Reference to the summary concerning the service of
iotices will show that in only 77 instances was it found necessary
o follow-up informal notices by the service of Statutory Notices.
Owing to non-compliance with one Statutory Notice requiring
-pairs, legal proceedings were instituted against the owner. The
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