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The table set out below gives details of applications dealt with by this Department
since the introduction of the Act, up to the end of the year, and in addition to
the work resulting from the applications, which placed a very heavy strain on both the
administrative staff and the inspectorate, the organisation of the new procedure and the
very large number of general enquiries received about the Act added considerably to the
volume of work. A temporary clerk was taken on for three months at the end of the year
to help clear up the large amount of paper work.
Part 1 - Applications for Certificates of Disrepair
(1) Number of applications for certificates - 490
(2) Number of decisions not to issue certificates - 1
(3) Number of decisions to issue certificates - 452
(a) in respect of some but not all defects - 273
(b) in respect of all defects - 179
(4) Number of undertakings given by landlords under paragraph 5 of the First
Schedule - 235
(5) Number of undertakings refused by Local Authority under proviso to
paragraph 5 of the First Schedule - Nil
(6) Number of Certificates issued - 113
Part 11 - Applications for Cancellation of Certificates
(7) Applications by landlords to Local Authority for cancellation of
certificates - 11
(8) Objections by tenants to cancellation of certificates - 3
(9) Decisions by Local Authority to cancel in spite of tenants' objection - Nil
(10) Certificates cancelled by Local Authority - 8
The above table shows the position as at 31st December, 1957. this time 37
applications included in the total of 490 were waiting for inspections to be carried out
and reports made to the January Health Committee.
Also, since three weeks had not elapsed since the December Health Committee, 104
applications, already subject to decisions to issue Certificates, were awaiting the receipt
of undertakings from the landlords on Form K, the Certificates of Disrepair for those
applications without undertakings being issued at the end of the three week period
allowed by the Act and thus being included in the half-yearly summary prepared at the
end of June, 1958.
HOUSES VISITED BY PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTORS DURING THE YEAR
The number of houses visited on complaint and by house to house visitation was
4,608 and, as a result of these visitations, 1,957 Notices were served and 136 summonses
were issued in respect of non-compliance.
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