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Sanitary Inspection
The following information supplied by the Chief Sanitary Inspsctor,
tinder Article 27 of the Sanitary Officers' Regulations, 1935, indicates
the action taken in sanitary inspection during the year.
Accumulations 31
Animals so kept 7
Burst pipes 8
Dampness 37
Ditches and ponds 1
Drainage defects 26
Drains obstructed 285
Dustbins 64
Food contaminated 12
General defective conditions 97
Insects and Pests 115
Milk, contaminated'and dirty bottles 7
Miscellaneous 24
Obnoxious effluvia 29
Overcrowding ' 37
Pig bins . 7
Refuse collection 9
Rivers 1
Rodents 305
Roofs, defective 45
Sewer obstruction 2
Shops 3
Sink waste pipes 5
Smoke nuisances 32
Unsound food 114
Verminous premises 10
Water supply 7
1,310
Eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty visits of inspection and
re-inspection were made for the purposes set out below:
Animals slaughtered and inspected 3
Business premises 206
Cowsheds 40
Employment Agencies 1
Factories (Mechanical Power) 120
Factories (Non-Mechanical Power) 71
Food and Drugs and other samples 577
Food poisoning inquiries 1
Food premises:
Apartment houses 1
Bakehouses 61
Bakers and confectioners 71
Butchers 183
Canteens 76
Chemists 17
Cinema 1
Confectioners (sweets only) 107
Fishmongers 80
General Stores 53
Greengrocers and fruiterers 101
Grocers 311
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