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Summary of Work of Sanitary Inspectors
during 1924.
Number of Complaints Received and Investigated 4,687
Dwelling Houses Inspected 9,554
Newly-infected Houses 8,356
Common Lodging Houses 58
Slaughter Houses 532
Bakehouses 165
Dairies 95
Cow Sheds 23
Milk Shops 128
Retail Shops (e.g., Eel Pie Shops, Jam Factories, Ice
Cream Shops, etc.) 2,292
Schools 3
Offensive Trades 185
Factories (including Food Factories) 292
Workshops 240
Laundries 12
Miscellaneous (e.g.. Smoke Abatement, Offensive
Accumulations, Stables, etc.) 3,437
Re-inspections 39,619
Number of Notices served—
On Offender 16
On Owner *8,298
On Occupier 186
Number of Notices complied with by—
Offender 9
Owner *8,794
Occupier 51
Total Nuisances found (separate items) 48,806
,, ,, abated do. 49,130
* Apparent discrepancy caused by large number of notices not complied
with at end of previous year. There would normally be About 1,000 notices not
fully complied with at any date during the year, rather more in winter than
in summer.