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1,350 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
8,055. On 592 of the premises visited nuisances to the number of
3,808 were discovered, and in dealing with the sanitary defects
from which they arose 408 "intimation" or "preliminary"
notices and 31 statutory notices were served. The number of
letters written with regard to the abatement of nuisances, etc.
was 214. At the end of the year 2,686 of the defects discovered
had been abated, the work of remedying 968 was in hand, and
the remaining 154 were oustanding. In order to ascertain that
the sanitary defects were being properly remedied 2,325 visits
were paid to the respective premises.
The number of inspections made under the Housing and
Town Planning Act and particulars recorded was 222, and the
number of sanitary defects remedied and improvements made
under this heading was 2,731.