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SANITARY SERVICES
Summary of Visits, 1954.
Inspections re complaints received 1,115
Visits in connection therewith 4,301
Visits to Food Premises (including butchers,
houses, cafes, restaurants, grocers and fish shops) 1,567
Inspections re Shops Act, 1950 378
Inspections re Factories 253
Visits re housing conditions and overcrowding (applications
for housing accommodation) 75
Visits re Infectious Diseases 533
Visits re Places of Public Entertainment 40
Visits re Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 1,469
Visits re Smoke Observations 27
Visits re Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act 1952 10
Miscellaneous Visits 3,938
13,706
Service of Notices.
Total Informal Notices served 484
Total Informal Dustbin Notices served 305
Total Informal Notices served 789
Total Informal Notices complied with 768
Total Statutory Notices served 80
Total Statutory Notices complied with 72
Repairs to Houses.
Considerable work has been carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors
during the year in connection with repairs to houses. As a
result of their efforts, repairs were carried out to 492 houses. Of
these, the repairs to 122 houses were of a major character. At the
remaining 370 houses, the repairs were not of such an extensive
character but were necessary to abate specific nuisances.
The repairs above referred to were carried out mainly as a
result of informal action on the part of the Inspectors. In 8O
instances only was it found necessary to follow-up informal notices
by the service of Statutory Notices.
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