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N.B.— In addition to the above, the District Inspectors carried
out during 1919 routine duties connected with the inspecting of
unsound and unwholesome food, the supervision of bakehouses,
slaughter-houses, cow-houses, dairies, milk shops and milk stores,
the market thoroughfares, outside urinals of public-houses, smoke,
the male public conveniences, factories and workshops, and workplaces
wherein males are employed, common lodging-houses, offensive
trades, effluvium nuisances, houses let in lodgings, exempted
tenements (Revenue Act), refuse and manure depots, etc. No new
houses were registered under the by-laws for houses let in lodgings,
and no routine house-to-house inspections were carried out under the
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, the latter fact being on
account of the war. Extra duties were again thrown upon the 12
male district Sanitary Inspectors under the Local Authorities (Food
Control) Order (No. 1), 1917, under which they had been appointed
to act by the Council on May 24th, 1917.
Infected Houses and Drainage Defects found by Male Inspectors.
A sanitary inspection is made of infected houses, i.e., houses at
which infectious disease is notified compulsorily, and the sanitary
inspection includes, in the large majority of cases, the testing of the
* 3 Summonses withdrawn. † 5 summonses dismissed.
‡ In dealing with unsound and unwholesome food care was taken that surrendered,
condemned or damaged foodstuffs were utilised for the production of
animal foodstuffs or fertilisers, or, in the case of meat, used for the extraction
of fat therefrom, in accordance with the terms of the Damaged Foodstuffs
Order, 1918, and the requirements of the National Salvage Council.