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electric collecting vehicles fitted with dustless covers have replaced
the remaining old-type lorries. The eight electric vehicles with the
occasional assistance of a small lorry, are now undertaking the transportation
of the whole of the refuse of the district.
During the year, as a result of action taken, there were supplied
146 new ashbins.
Sanitary Inspection of District.
See pages 32 to 39.
Nuisances, Contraventions of Bye-Laws, Defective Drainage, etc.
The number of premises on which nuisances were outstanding
at the end of 1930 was 434. To these another 792 premises whereat
nuisances were recorded in 1931 were added, giving a total of
1226 premises. Of these 739 had the nuisances remedied, leaving
487 premises at which nuisances still existed at the end of the year.
During the year, nuisances at 46 houses were reported to the
Health Committee, which, added to the 45 brought forward from
1930 made a total of 91. 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 53 of the houses. In one case it was decided to take no
further action, leaving 37 cases to be carried forward to 1932,