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6. ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE, FOOD MP WATER.
Number of complaints received and
investigated 1,401
(a) Visits to dwelling houses, including
billets 6,595
(b) General sanitation inspections
(including 1,874 visits to air
raid shelters) 12,381
(c) Meat and other food inspections 3,290
Notices served: Verbal 345
Written 521
Statutory 20
Nuisances abated and improvements effected.
(a) Dwelling Houses 825
(b) General sanitation (including air
raid shelters, 267) 2,349
(c) Meat and other food premises 319
Some Housing Details.
"Permitted Number" certificates issued 29
Number of dwellings overcrowded at
the end of the year 18
Number of new cases of overcrowding
reported during the year 9
Number of cases of overcrowding
relieved during the year 6
In consequence of a number of complaints
made regarding overcrowding, and requests for
housing accommodation the Public Health
Committee early in 1942 caused a survey to be
made of overcrowding conditions in the Borough.
It was not possible to carry out a detailed
survey such as was done in 1935/36, but use
35.