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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1919.
Total Sanitary Operations 49,608
Number of house inspections 37,844
House to house inspections 1,292
Bakehouse inspections 227
Bakehouse nuisances abated 50
Urinals—inspections 173
Do. altered, repaired or water
laid on 75
Intimations served under Sec. 3 3,553
Notices served under Sec. 4, &c. 1,065
Notices served under Secs. 62 & 65 852
Complaints received & attended to 3,526
Number of houses disinfected 2,382
Houses supplied with disinfectants 1,837
House drains flushed with disinfectants
after infectious disease 1,180
Overcrowding abated 7
Premises improved, cleansed and
repaired 2,294
Drains tested By smoke 372
Do. „ water 812
Drains cleansed and repaired 242
Drains relaid 31
Frontage drains constructed or
re-constructed 5
Soil pipes and drains ventilated 48
Sink and rain-water pipes discon
nected or repaired 158
Water Closets cleansed & repaired 509
Cesspools abolished —
Mews & Stables drained & paved 14
Yards and forecourts paved and
repaired 188
Accumulations of manure and
other obnoxious matter removed
or proper receptacles
provided 45
Dust receptacles provided 456
Leaky house - roofs and gutters
repaired 359
Houses supplied with water and
fittings repaired 165
Houses let in lodgings 89
No. of inspections 631
Water Closets provided, supplied
with water or supply disconnected
from drinking water
cisterns 236
Cisterns covered, cleansed and
repaired 128
Additional water supplies to upper
floors 11
Keeping of animals in unfit state
discontinued 32
Smoke observations 3
Certificates of disinfection granted 1,502
Houses inspected and certificates
granted (Sec. 48) —
Proceedings ordered by Council
and Health Committee 3,284
Summonses issued 107
Magisterial Orders obtained and
enforced 40
Factories, Workshops, &c., inspections
3,489
Sanitary conveniences provided
or improvements effected in
Factories & Workshops (Sec.
38) 81
Underground sleeping rooms :
Disused 1
Defects remedied 25
Gipsy van inspections 46
Drains laid to new houses and
tenements 11
Samples taken under the Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts 1,000
Miscellaneous 2,965