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REPORT
OF THE
CHIEF SANITARY INSPECTOR.
I beg to submit my Report of the work carried out for the
year ended 31st December, 1930. Table iii. gives a summary in
detail of the various nuisances abated and sanitary improvements
effected.
Notices Served.—Nine hundred and twenty-three Preliminary
Notices or intimations were served during the year in
respect of 831 houses. It was found necessary to serve 98
Statutory Notices upon the owners or occupiers of 90 houses.
Six hundred and forty-two letters, respecting 786 houses,
were received through the Town Clerk's Department, and
answered, enquiring if any sanitary notices were outstanding
with respect to properties for which negotiations for sale were in
progress.
Legal Proceedings.—Legal proceedings were instituted in
two cases with the results stated:—
For failing to comply with Notice to Abate Nuisance.
Two Guineas Costs, and ordered to execute work in
fourteen days.
For failing to comply with Notice to Abate Nuisance.
Two Pounds Costs and ordered to abate nuisance
forthwith.
Opening up of Drains under Section 41 of the Public Health
Act, 1875, and Amending Acts.—As a result of the application
of the smoke or chemical tests, application was made to the
Local Authority with respect to the opening up of drains at three
houses.
House Drainage.—The drainage systems and sanitary
arrangements of 19 houses have been entirely reconstructed,
extensive amendments or repairs were carried out at 39 houses,
and at 10 houses the drainage systems have been made water
tight by the patent internal process.
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