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There was not much difficulty in getting the owners to comply
with the notices, and legal proceedings were only taken against one
owner, though at first conditions were such that much delay occurred,
but circumstances are now more favourable, so that it is probable that
at the end of twelve months of the resumption of this branch of the
work, the pre-war number will be reached of working-class dwellings
inspected and dealt with in this way.
Some of the 4,000 small houses on our Inspection Schedule are in
a somewhat deplorable state, but arrears are being overtaken, and the
increasing complaints coming in from householders help in discovering
insanitary conditions, which get attended to and remedied in the usual
way.
THOMAS BUTLER,
Sanitary Inspector.
Cert. and Assoc. Royal Sanitary Institute,
Inspector of Meat and other Foods, and
Advanced Building Construction (S.K.).
8th April, 1920.