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General Sanitary Work.
In the Sanitary Inspectors' Report table will be found the record of the work
carried out by each Inspector during the year, together with its nature.
37,898 houses were inspected, 5,660 being the result of house to house inspection.
14,322 intimation notices were served for the abatement of various nuisances,
for which it was necessary to serve 7,492 statutory notices before the defects were
remedied.
63,892 re-visits were made to supervise the abatement of the nuisances
complained of.
4,703 visits were made to the houses of consumptive people who had been
notified to be suffering from that disease. (This does not include the visits made
by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health.)
Police Court proceedings were taken in 53 instances where the statutory notices
were disregarded. This number does not, of course, include proceedings under the
Food and Drugs Acts.
7,445 drains were tested with smoke, and 2,497 were either constructed or
re-constructed, cleansed or repaired, and 778 were trapped.
318 new soil pipes were fixed and ventilated ; 1,421 new closet pans and traps
were fixed, and 2,437 closets were either cleansed and repaired or provided with
additional light and ventilation, as well as 2,067 water closets provided with proper
flushing apparatus.
3,077 yards, forecourts and areas were paved or repaired.
Notices were served to provide 1,307 sanitary dust receptacles; 66 manure
receptacles were provided ; 676 offensive accumulations were removed from the
rear of dwelling houses.
890 houses were ventilated underneath the lower floor.
32 underground rooms, which were illegally occupied were discontinued from
being used as such.
62 notices were served for the abatement of smoke nuisances.
333 bakehouses were visited and 271 cleansing notices were served.
4,668 notices were served to have houses cleansed, and water supply was reinstated
to 140 houses.