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SANITARY SERVICES
Summary of Visits.
Visits re housing defects (Public Health Act, 1936) 2,967
Visits re housing defects (Housing Acts 1936/57) 306
Visits re drainage and building works 256
Visits re dustbins (Public Health Act, 1936) 50
Visits re housing conditions and overcrowding
(applications for housing accommodation) 36
Visits re Rent Act, 1957 168
Visits re food premises (including butchers, bake'
houses, confectioners, restaurants, grocers and fish
shops) 1,050
Visits re milk and ice-cream sampling 102
Visits re food hawkers 4
Visits re Shops Act, 1950 624
Visits re factories 92
Visits re Infectious Diseases 786
Visits re Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 952
Visits re Smoke Observations 16
Visits re places of public entertainment 39
Visits re other matters 3,077
10,525
Service of Notices.
Informal Notices served :
re Housing repairs 395
re Dustbins 49
re Food premises 63
re Shops and Factories 115
Total Informal Notices served 622
Total Informal Notices complied with 520
Total Statutory Notices served 38
Total Statutory Notices complied with — 34
Repairs to Houses.
Considerable work has been carried out by the Public Health
Inspectors during the year in connection with repairs to houses.
Their efforts have resulted in repairs being carried out at 431 houses,
the repairs varying from those of a major character to minor repairs
necessary to abate specific nuisances.
It is, I think, worthy of note that the repairs referred to were
carried out mainly as a result of informal action on the part of the
Inspectors. Only in 36 instances was it found necessary to followup
informal notices by the service of Statutory Notices.
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