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SANITARY SERVICES
Summary of Visits.
Visits re housing defects (Public Health Act. 1936) 3,748
Visits re housing defects (Housing Act, 1957) 386
Visits re drainage and building works 263
Visits re dustbins (Public Health Act, 1936) 49
Visits re Housing conditions and overcrowding
(applications for housing accommodation) 28
Visits re Rent Act, 1957 258
Visits re food premises (including butchers, bakehouses,
confectioners, restaurants, grocers and fish
shops) 1,252
Visits re milk and ice-cream sampling 149
Visits re food hawkers 14
Visits re Shops Act, 1950 1.040
Visits re factories 158
Visits re Infectious Diseases 803
Visits re Clean Air Act, 1956 575
Visits re Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 1,192
Visits re Heating Appliances (Fireguards Act,) 1952 39
Visits re places of public entertainment 45
Visits re other matters 3,169
13,168
Service of Notices.
Informal Notices served :
re Housing repairs 406
re Dustbins 33
re Food Premises 94
re Shops and Factories 139
Total Informal Notices served 672
Total Informal Notices complied with 619
Total Statutory Notices served 45
Total Statutory Notices complied with 42
Repairs to Houses.
During the year under review, the Public Health Inspectors
have been actively engaged on work in connection with repairs to
houses. Their efforts have resulted in repairs being carried out at
426 houses, the repairs varying from those of a major character to
minor repairs necessary to abate specific nuisances.
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