AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL HANDBOOK
premises receive more frequent visits, while others in suburban districts require less frequent attention. Special inspections are made of places where food is stored or handled, stables, and premises occupied by Asiatics and others.
Special inspectors undertake the inspection and licensing of places used in connection with the preparation, storage, or sale of food, the investigation of cases of infectious disease and the disinfection of premises, also the supervision of stores and depots where dangerous goods are kept. A woman sanitary inspector is employed visiting the homes of people requiring her advice and attention. Her work is really an extension and rounding-off of sanitary inspectors' work, more reliance being placed on persuasion to secure the improvements sought. She also serves as a connecting link between the various social workers and the Department, bringing together the supply and demand of social service.
The figures given in the following summary of work will indicate to some extent the efforts made during the past year to keep the City clean and healthy:—
SUMMARY OF WORK
For the Year Ending 31st March, 1922.
| Number of inspections made | 41,787 |
| Number of complaints received and investigated | 982 |
| Notifiable infectious diseases dealt with | 571 |
| Number of rats caught | 8,296 |
| Letters, etc., received and despatched | 4,025 |
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