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SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE AREA
During the year the staff numbered one senior inspector responsible for all new drainage work,
ten district inspectors, one woman inspector and one food and drugs inspector. Three temporary
inspectors were appointed at the end of 1936 to release three of the permanent staff for house-tohouse
inspection of a proposed re-development area and afterwards to release the staff in turn for
work in connection with the Overcrowding Survey under the Housing Act, 1936. These engagements
lasted for varying periods, the longest being for ten months.
The following table shows the number and nature of inspections carried out by the sanitary
inspectors during the year.
TABLE 9
DWELLING HOUSES
COMPLAINTS.
Houses inspected for first time
3,394
Re-inspections
13,656
Intimations served
2,380
do. complied with
2,157
INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Houses inspected for first time
1,361
Re-inspections
626
Intimations served
186
do. complied with
68
HOUSE TO HOUSE
INSPECTIONS.
Houses inspected for first time
273
Re-inspections
2,197
Intimations served
236
do. complied with
141
STATUTORY
NOTICES.
Number served under
Public Health Act
564
Housing Act
15
Number complied with
Public Health Act
520
Housing Act
9
KENT
RESTRICTION ACT
CERTIFICATES.
Number of applications
5
Number of inspections made
8
Number of reports to M.O.H.
3
CLEARANCE AREAS.
Number of inspections
957
DRAINAGE.
Drains tested
3,348
Inspections of work carried out under Notice
7,265
Number of Notices received of voluntary work
343
Inspections of work carried out voluntarily
2,891
INFIRM AND
DIRTY TENANTS.
First inspections
53
Re-inspections
145
Notices served
1
MISCELLANEOUS.
Inspections in connection with Housing applications
412
Inspections in connection with Underground Rooms
182
Inspections in connection with use of Insecticide Sprays
42
Inspection of re-housed tenants
169