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Reason of Visit. No.
Application of Tests to Drains 212
Inspections under Diseases of Animals
Acts 6
Obtaining Samples of Foods and Drugs 5
Miscellaneous (including Inspections of
food, slaughter-houses, mews,
stables, caravans, Petroleum Acts,
water supply, piggeries, mosquitoes,
etc.) 1,809
Total 11,965
Notices Served.-One thousand four hundred and sixteen
preliminary notices or intimations were served in respect
of one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight houses.
It was found necessary to serve one hundred and eightyone
Statutory Notices upon the owners or occupiers of one .
hundred and sixty-six houses. The necessary work was
executed in all but one hundred and fifty cases. In one
hundred and seven of these the work was actually in hand
at the close of the year.
In two cases legal proceedings were instituted:—
(1) Failure to comply with Notices to abate nuisances
in respect of two houses.
Magistrates ordered that work be completed within
fourteen days and awarded £2 2s. Od. costs.
(2) Failure to comply with Notice to abate nuisance.
Case withdrawn on payment by defendants of
10s. 6d. costs, the work having been completed before
the hearing.
Seven hundred and forty-three enquiries received from
the Town Clerk's Department were replied to regarding eight
hundred and fifty-five properties where negotiations for sale
were in progress.
House Drainage.—The drainage systems and sanitary
arrangements of forty-two houses were entirely reconstructed.
Extensive alterations or repairs were carried out at eighty
houses. At seventeen houses the drainage systems were made
water-tight by the patent internal process.
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