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REPORT OF THE CHIEF SANITARY INSPECTOR.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit an abbreviated Annual Report which
summarises the work carried out by your Sanitary Inspectors
during the year ended 31st December, 1944.
Housing1 Inspections. The total number of houses inspected
during the year for "sanitary defects" under the Public
Health and Housing Acts was 431. Action taken in connection
with defective dwelling houses is set out in the housing table
on pages 43 and 44.
Notices specifying the necessary work required to remedy
sanitary defects were served upon owners of properties as
follows:—
Intimation notices 326
Statutory notices
Housing Act, 1936 7
Public Health Act, 1936 35
Eradication of Bed Bugs. Twenty-nine houses were found.
on inspection to be infested with bed bugs, and are classified
as follows in accordance with the requirements of the
Ministry's Circular:—
Council Houses Other Houses Total
7 22 29
Of the 29 houses infested 27 were treated by spraying
with- "Vermicine," and two by fumigation with sulphurdioxide
together with the use of blow-lamps. In two cases
van disinfestation of furniture was carried out.
Drainage Work. At 10 houses the drainage systems were
entirely reconstructed and at 71 houses extensive repairs to
drains were carried out. Smoke and water tests were applied
to the drains of houses in 87 instances, and obstructions were
removed from drains at 124 houses.
Food Supply. The total number of inspections made to
premises where articles of food are prepared or exposed for
sale was 1,072. At 23 premises improvements in sanitary
conditions were effected.
Unsound Food. The undermentioned articles of food were
found, upon inspection, to be unfit for human consumption;
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