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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES (CONTD)
Floors (wood and concrete) repaired or renewed 434
Floors (ventilated) 206
Window frames and sashe3 repaired or renewed 846
Window frames and sashes painted 134
Coppers repaired or renewed Ill
Fireplaces, stoves and ovens repaired or renewed 478
No. of houses where walls and ceilings were cleansed.2685
Accumulations of refuse removed 66
Miscellaneous defects remedied 861
Reinspect ions in connection with the 3,426 houses inspected,
totalled 9,889.
During the year 51 complaints relative to the provision of
dustbins were referred to the Cleansing Superintendent.
Damp proof courses were inserted in 516 houses, 337 houses
were pointed, 208 houses rendered externally, and 72 food stores
were provided or repaired.
Other inspections were:-
Inspections of Gommon L0dging Houses 12
„ Stables and Mews 145
School Lavatories 15
11 Pawn Shops 11
Public-house Urinals 115
Brooks . 13
„ Knackers Yards 6
Interviews with builders and owners 993
Rooms inspected after disinfection 353
Miscellaneous Inspections 1221
Staircases lighted 9
Repair of Houses by the Council.
In 83 instances repairs were executed at properties, the
amount involved being £843. 4. 2.
Smoke Abatement.
110 observations of chimneys have been made turing the
year and 6 preliminary notices and 1 Statutory Notice wero served.
Infectious Disease.
578 visits were made by the Sanitary Inspectors to houses
where infectious cases had been notified.
6,953 articles were disinfected at the steam disinfector.
505 articles were destroyed at the request of the owners.
Terminal disinfection of rooms is carried out with the
Formalin Spray:-
343 rooms were disinfected after Scarlet Fever.
69 „ „ „ „ Diphtheria
145 „ !l „ „ Tuberculos is .
298 '' „ '' „ verminous & miscellaneous
cases .
5 Wards or Schoolrooms were disinfected.
221 Library Books were disinfected with Forme,Idehyde Gas
The Disinfecting Station is provided with two baths, which
were used 50 times by patients suffering from Scabies.
Bedding and clothing belonging to patients suffering from
Scabies were treated in the steam disinfector.
In addition, the blankets, pillows, etc., used by A.R.P.
personnel wero disinfected from time to time., and there were
7,754 such articles disinfected during the year.