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Drains and Sewers—Choked 359
Defective 90
Dustbins defective 264
Houses with defects 516
Plumbing defects 138
Flooding—gardens 34
Vermin 33
Insect infestations 68
Overcrowding, alleged 616
Shelters and Static Tanks unsatisfactory 39
Smoke nuisances 14
Water Courses 6
Defective Water-closets 67
Other complaints (pig bins, wasps' nests, defective fences) 139
Food unfit (excluding requests received from shops to visit
and inspect unfit food) 29
PART III.
Notices served and/or action taken under Housing or Public Health
Acts as a result of inspections made:—
Housing Act, 1936.
(i) Statutory notices served under Section 9 requiring
execution of repair work 38
(ii) Dwellings reported to Public Health Committee and
approved for action under Section 11, i.e. as being
in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be
unfit for human habitation 3
(iii) Number of cases reported and approved for action
under Section 12, i.e. for the making of a Closing
Order on a building or part thereof 1
(iv) Informal notices served with view to subsequent
action under Section 9 134
Public Health Act.
Statutory Notices under:—
(i) Section 24—i.e. Notice requiring work to a public
sewer 16
(ii) Section 39—i.e. Notice requiring repair or renewal of
drains 32
(iii) Section 45—i.e. Notice requiring repair or renewal of
defective water-closets 6
(iv) Section 56—i.e. Notice requiring work on undrained
or badly drained yard areas 2
(v) Section 75—i.e. Notice requiring renewal of a dustbin 83
(vi) Section 83—i.e. Notice requiring cleansing of
minous premises 2
(vii) Section 93—i.e. Notice requiring abatement of a
nuisance 42
(viii) Informal Notices served (all sections) 1,397