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The continued shortage of housing accommodation emphasises
the need for maintaining existing houses in an efficient state of
repair.
942 houses were inspected for housing defects either under
the Public Health or the Housing Acts. Details of the inspections
made and improvements effected as a result of such surveys are
set out in the following summary.
Inspections.
The total number of inspections made during the year was
6,229. On 545 of the premises visited nuisances to the number of
2,863 were discovered, and in dealing with the sanitary defects
from which they arose 330 "intimation" or "preliminary" notices
and 37 statutory notices were served. The number of letters
written with regard to the abatement of nuisances, etc., was 186.
At the end of the year 1,550 of the defects discovered had been
abated, the work of remedying 1,209 was in hand, and the remaining
104 were outstanding. In order to ascertain that the sanitary
defects were being properly remedied 1,404 visits were paid to the
respective premises.
The number of inspections made under the Housing and Town
Planning Act and particulars recorded was 381, and the number
of sanitary defects remedied and improvements made under this
heading was 1,880.
The following list shows the number of routine inspections
and visits made:—