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Sanitary Inspection of the District.
The Sanitary Inspectorial staff consists of a Senior
Sanitary Inspector and an Assistant Sanitary Inspector,
both of whom hold Certificates of the Royal Sanitary
Institute as sanitary inspectors and also the Certificates
for inspectors of meat and other foods.
In addition to the duties of finding nuisances and taking
appropriate action in connection therewith, the work
of the Sanitary Inspectors includes inspection of dwellings
under the Housing Acts, the making of enquiries into and
disinfection after infectious disease, the supervision of the
sanitary conditions of workshops and workplaces, the supervision
of slaughter houses, of restaurants and other places
where food is prepared, and of shops where food is sold,
especially the shops of butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers
and bakehouses, the supervision of the condition of dairies,
cowsheds, milkshops and of piggeries, of stables and
manure receptacles and of van dwellings.
In addition, there are numerous duties of inspection in
connection with offensive trades, under the Acts which
regulate the storage of petroleum and under the Shops Acts.
Inspections. For all purposes the Inspectors made 5350
visits of inspection and re-inspection during the year.
A tabulated statement of these visits will be found at
the end of the report, table V, page 77.
Notices served. The Intimation Notices served during
the year numbered 572 and the majority were duly complied
with.
The Statutory Notices carried forward from the
preceding year were 22, and it was found necessary to
serve 171 legal notices during the year. Of this total of
193 Statutory Notices 177 were complied with during the
year.