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Sanitary Circumstances.
SANITARY INSPECTION OF THE BOROUGH.
Summary of Sanitary Operations for the Year 1922.
Total Sanitary Operations 72,408 Dust receptacles provided 641
Number of house inspections 39,418 Leaky house-roofs and gutters
House to house inspections 688 repaired 1,011
Bakehouse inspections 278 Houses supplied with water
Bakehouse nuisances abated 25 and fittings repaired 276
Urinals—inspections 218 Houses let in lodgings registered 85
Do. altered, repaired' or No. of inspections of do. 165
water laid on 78 Water Closets provided.
Intimations served under Sec.3 3,572 supplied with water or
Notices served under Sec.4,&c. 910 supply disconnected from
Notices served under Sees. drinking water cisterns 256
62 & 65 1,397 Cisterns covered, cleansed and
Complaints received and repaired 166
attended to 3,559 Additional water supplies to
Number of premises disinfected 2,257 upper floors 31
Houses supplied with dis- Keeping of animals in unfit
infectants 2,089 state discontinued 36
Overcrowding abated 8 Smoke observations 130
Premises improved, cleansed Certificates of disinfection
and repaired 3,075 granted 3,599
Drains tested By smoke 735 Houses inspected and certi-
Do. ,, water 1,173 ficates granted (Sec. 48) 69
Drains cleansed and repaired 241 Proceedings ordered by Council
Drains relaid 110 and Health Committee 3,565
Frontage drains constructed Summonses issued 66
or re-constructed 9 Magisterial Orders obtained
Soil pipes and drains ventilated 112 and enforced .27
Sink and rain-water pipes Factories, Workshops, &c.,
disconnected or repaired 478 inspections 4,087
Water Closets cleansed and Sanitary conveniences pro-
repaired 549 vided or improvements
Cesspools abolished — effected in Factories and
Mews and Stables drained and Workshops (Sec. 38) 142
paved 3 Underground sleeping rooms :
Yards and forecourts paved Use discontinued .3
and repaired 210 Defects remedied 20
Accumulations of manure and Gipsy van inspections 59
other obnoxious matter re- Drains laid to new houses and
moved or proper receptacles tenements 69
provided 4 Samples taken under the Sale
of Food and Drugs Acts 1,100
Miscellaneous 2,170