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Many other important duties running concurrently with this programme of
routine work, but of a type and variety which render a constant regular programme
of inspections impossible, such as new drainage and plumbing works, abolition
of disused drains in Clearance Areas, the application of the Clean Air Act,
investigation of all types of complaints, and many others, occupy a great deal
of the Public Health Inspectors' time, in addition to those defined above.
Under each subject heading therefore, where applicable, information
concerning basic routine work is enumerated, followed by an explanation of
the works involved in duties other than basic routine work.
The total number of business premises of all kinds subject to basic
routine inspections is 2371 and this branch of Sanitary Circumstances alone
requires a total of approximately 5794 inspections annually.
The actual number of basic routine inspections made during 1960 was 11,944
together with 6487 re-inspections, making a total of 18,431 inspections during
the year. This reflects credit on the staff of Public Health Inspectors when
one considers the vast amount of additional responsibility and work, the rapid
development, both public and private, which has taken place in Shoreditch this
year, and that the depleted and ever-changing staff have been working at less
than half the prescribed establishment of Inspectors at times and never
exceeded more than a little over half establishment at any time during 1960.