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Sanitary Inspection
The following information supplied by the Chief Sanitary Inspector,
under Article 27 of the Sanitary Officers' Regulations, 1935, indicates
the action taken in sanitary inspection during the year.
Investigations were made with regard to 1,327 complaints as
follows:
Accumulations 28
Animals so kept 7
Burst pipes 2
Dampness 34
Ditches and ponds 1
Drainage defects 48
Drains obstructed 310
Dustbins 155
Food contaminated 8
General defective conditions 81
Insects and Pests 67
Milk, contaminated and dirty bottles 4
Miscellaneous 21
Obnoxious effluvia 25
Overcrowding 21
Pig bins 5
Refuse collection 14
Rivers 1
Rodents 302
Roofs, defective 25
Sewer obstructions 4
Shops 1
Sink waste pipes 6
Smoke nuisances 24
Unsound food 117
Verminous premises 14
Water supply 2
1,327
Twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-three visits of inspection
and re-inspection were made for the purposes set out below:
Animals slaughtered and inspected 2
Business premises 67
Cowsheds 13
Employment Agencies 4
Factories (Mechanical Power) 253
Factories (Non-Mechanical Power) 84
Food and Drugs and other samples 582
Food and Drugs—Food Bye laws 25
Food poisoning inquiries 20
Food premises:
Apartment houses 2
Bakehouses 43
Bakers and confectioners 50
Butchers 133
Canteens 59
Canteens—school 29
Chemists 18
Cinema 9
Confectioners (sweets only) 95
Fishmongers 68
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