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SANITARY SERVICES
Summary of Visits
Visits re housing defects (Public Health Act, 1936 2,825
Visits re housing defects (Housing Act, 1957) 708
Visits re drainage and building works 357
Visits re dustbins (Public Health Act, 1936) 43
Visits re housing conditions and overcrowding
(applications for housing accommodation) 203
Visits re Rent Act 39
Visits re food premises (including butchers, bake
houses, confectioners, restaurants, grocers and fish
shops) 1,086
Visits re milk and ice cream sampling 132
Visits re food hawkers 4
Visits re factories 270
Visits re Shops Act, 1950 729
Visits re infectious diseases 1,003
Visits re Clean Air Act, 1956 3,537
Visits re Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 680
Visits re other matters 4,351
15,967
Service of Notices
Informal Notices served:
re Housing Repairs 378
re Dustbins 23
re Food Premises 77
re Shops and Factories 92
Total Informal Notices served 570
Total Informal Notices complied with 563
Total Statutory Notices served 36
Total Statutory Notices complied with 35
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
401 houses, the repairs varying from those of a major character to
minor repairs necessary to abate specific nuisances.
The repairs referred to above 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 follow-up informal action by
the service of Statutory Notices.
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