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During the year as a result of action taken there were supplied
151 new ashbins.
Sanitary Inspection of District.
See pages 29 to 36.
Nuisances, Contraventions of Bye-Laws, Defective Drainage, etc.
The number of premises on which nuisances were outstanding
at the end of 1928 was 254. To these another 1261 premises whereat
nuisances were recorded in 1929 were added, giving a total of
1515 premises. Of these 1006 had the nuisances remedied, leaving
509 premises at which nuisances still existed at the end of the year.
During the year, nuisances at 45 houses were reported to the
Health Committee, which added to the 72 brought forward from
1928, made a total of 117. Before asking the authority to serve
statutory notices, the premises are inspected by the Medical Officer
of Health. Statutory notices were authorised and served in most
of these cases, and by the end of the year, the nuisances were remedied
in 42 of the houses. In 13 cases it was decided to take no
further action, and in. 2 other instances the houses ceased to be
used for human habitation, leaving 60 cases to be carried forward
to 1929.