Health Committee's report / City of Melbourne.

  • Melbourne (Vic.). Health Committee.
Date:
[1925]
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Credit: Health Committee's report / City of Melbourne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Other Food Premises.—Number of inspections, 7,887; number partly reconstructed, 54; number abolished, 14; number of prosecutions, 14. Fines and costs imposed, £31. Boarding Houses.—Number registered, 674; number of inspections, 2,385; number partly reconstructed, 39; number abolished, 59; number of reports, 696. Common Lodging Houses.—Number registered, 46; number of inspec¬ tions, 587; number partly reconstructed, 3; number abolished, 7; number of reports, 51; number of prosecutions, 2. Fines and costs imposed, £20. Hairdressers’ Shops.—Number of inspections, 2,154; number partly reconstructed, 24; number abolished, 6; number of reports, 2; number of prosecutions, 3. Fines and costs imposed, £3. Offensive Trades.—Number registered, 98; number of inspections, 698; new premises registered, 3; new premises erected, 1; number partly reconstructed, 7; number of reports, 107; notices under Regulations served and complied with, 8; number of prosecutions, 3. Fines and costs imposed, £5. Cattle Sale Yards.—Number registered, 3; number refused registra¬ tion, 1; number of inspections, 19; number of reports, 4. Foxtories.—Number of applications for approval, 12; number approved (Health Act), 13; number of inspections, 175; number of reports, 17; total premises in City registered by Factories Department: Factories, 2,275; Shops, 3,987. Rat Destruction.—Number of complaints, 222; number of premises visited, 2,452; number of rodents (rats and mice) taken, 10,346; struc¬ tural work effected at premises for rat prevention, 151; notices under Rat Destruction Regulations served and complied with, 23; charges for rat destruction, £1,010/9/10; number of prosecutions, 4. Fines and costs imposed, £7. Smoke Nuisance.—Number of complaints, 30; number of inspections and observations taken, 183; number of premises where alterations were effected for prevention of nuisance from smoke, 9 (including recon¬ structed furnaces, 5; oil fuel, 2; increased electric power, 1; special smoke consuming apparatus, 1). Hospitals.—Number of private hospitals in City registered by Com¬ mission of Public Health, 24; number of inspections, 23; number of reports, 3. Public Buildings.—Number of dancing saloons registered, 17 ; number of places of pastime registered, 3; number of day and evening inspections, 884; number of reports, 93; number of public buildings in City registered by Commission of Public Health, 53. General.—Plans submitted for examination, 151; number of inspec¬ tions of yards, 2526; qf lanes, 426; number of notices served under By-law 117, 165; By-law 135, 100; By-law 150, 98; complaints received and attended to, 558; special complaints where females were employed received and attended to, 29; instructions served on householders for infectious disease, 369; for pulmonary tuberculosis, 166; special visits to cases in connection with poliomyelitis campaign, 52. Returns furnished to Public Health Department for infectious diseases, 402; new registrations and transfers, 332. Notices of infectious diseases sent to schoolmasters, 156; specifica¬ tions of works sent to owners, agents, etc., 576; matters referred to City Engineer, 49; to Dog Inspector, 11. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, T. W. SINCLAIR, M.D., B.S. (Melb.), D.P.H. (Lond)., Medical Officer of Health. Medical Officer of Health’s Office, 9th March, 1926.