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During the year, nuisances at 135 houses were reported to the
Health Committee, which added to the 64 brought forward from
1919, make a total of 199. Before asking authority to serve
statutory notices, the premises are inspected by the Medical Officer
of Health and Inspector of Nuisances. Statutory notices were
authorised and served in most of these cases, and by the end of
the year, the nuisances were remedied in 159 of the houses, leaving
40 cases to be carried forward in 1921.
Comparative figures for the years 1918, 1919 and 1920 in
connection with nuisances are submitted herewith :—
Number of complaints received
Premises at which nuisances were
located
1918.
152
209
1919.
265
655
1920.
598
1326
Informal Notices sent—
First
Second
Statutory Notices served
158
18
17
571
232
243
1069
385
231
It is my duty once more to point out that the staff of Sanitary
Inspectors is not sufficiently large. The figures set out above
show that much greater activity in connection with defective and
insanitary property has been manifest during the year under review,
but ii has only been possible to give these matters the necessary
attention by devoting less time to other, and perhaps equally
important, phases of public health work.
It must be placed on record that twice during 1920, recommendations
urging the appointment of a District Sanitary Inspector
to fill the existing vacancy, were sent forward by the Health
Committee to the Council, but were defeated.
Premises and Occupations controlled by Bye-laws or
Regulations.
There are about 350 premises in this district which call for
periodical inspection such as the following
Houses let in Lodgings, Common Lodging Houses, Bakehouses,
Slaughter-houses, Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops,
Offensive Trades, Laundries (non-factory) and Workshops and
Work Places.