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SANITARY SERVICES
Inspections
Public Health Act, 1936 873
Housing Act, 1936 110
Rag Flock and Other Filling Material Act 1951
Pet Animals Act, 1951 8
Factories and Outworkers 179
Food Preparing Premises 293
General Food Premises 534
Shops Acts 1950 439
Smoke Observations 174
Unsound Food 107
Complaints investigated 492
Interviews with owners etc. 149
Revisits to property under notice 1,144
Infectious Diseases Cases 132
Food Poisoning . 7
Special enquiries in connection with infectious
disease cases 189
Aged and infirm persons 18
Pests Act 537
Clean Air Act . 1,112
Miscellaneous 764
Rent Act l957.
The Rent Act 1957 came into operation in July 1957. It was
introduced to amend certain other enactments, including the Housing
Repairs and Rents Act 1954, relating to the control of rents, the
right to retain possession of dwellings, to provide a minimum
length for notice to terminate residential lettings and to enable
rented houses and flats to be put and kept in repair. It is this
latter part of the Act with which we have principally to deal
Applications for Certificates of Disrepair have continued
to come in, the numbers being set out below:-
Number of Applications for Certificates of Disrepair
(Form I) 126
Number of Proposals to Issue Certificates of
Disrepair (Form J) 150
Number of Certificates of Disrepair issued (Form L) 61
Number of Applications for Certificates of Disrepair
rejected 3
Number of Certificates of Disrepair cancelled 7
Number of Applications for Cancellation rejected 2
Number of visits made in connection with above 376
Informal Notices served:-
Shops Act 7 Complied with 20
Food and Drugs Act 4 " " 23
Public Health Act 236 " " 229
Housing Act - " "
Factories Act 8 " " 8
Pests Act " "
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