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Action under Sec 35 of the Housing, Town Planning etc Act, 1909,
was teken during then year in respect of 4 houses.
Pour esses of overcrowding have "been detected and abated during the
year beside one case in respect of which notice was served towards the end of
1912.
The condition of houses intended for the accommodation of the working
clesses in the District may generally be described as satisfactory, although
minor defects, usually capable of easy remedy, are constantly found in
the course of the house-to-house inspection,
The improved demand for houses of this class is responsible for a
tendency towards increased rents, but it cannot be said that there is any
shortage of such houses.
During the year 6 new houses have been certified complete and 12
other were nearing completion at the end of December.

66 Inspections of workshops were made during the year.
Outworkers. Notifications were received in respect of five outworkers living
in the District. Their premises were inspected end found to be in satisfactory
condition.
During the year attention was called by H.M. Inspector of Factories
to the fact that separate sanitary accommodation for female employees was not"
provided at a factory in the District.
A notice was served requiring the occupier to make the necessary
provision and temporary arrangements were made pending the expected removal
of the factory to other premises. This removal has not yet taken place,
but the occupier has ceased to employ females end no action has been taken to
enforce compliance with the notice.
(C). SALTITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE DISTRICT.
Staff Hr. Edmund Reeve Boulter continues to hold office as Inspector of
Huisances. The question of termination of his appointment on grounds of
age has been under consideration by the Council on two occasions during the
year and they have decided to take no action in the matter. I certainly
think that taking into consideration his great age, viz, 84, and his 34 years
service with this and the previous authority, that some arrangement should be
come to whereby he could be relieved of some of his duties.
I cannot say but that he has done a large amount of work during the
past few years, and he has dons it -sell but it not right that a man of
his age should be called upon to carry out all the trying duties of a Sanitary
Inspector, and I feel that should any serious outbreak of infectious disease
occur he would be unable to deal with it satisfactorily.
The Hospital Messenger and Attendant engaged in December 1912 proved
unsatisfactory and was dismissed in June, hie place being filled by a person
until recently engaged in a similar capacity at the East Ashford Rural District
Council's Isolation Hospital, who has proved an efficient and satisfactory
officer.
The clerical assistance provided for the Sanitary Inspector from the
staff of the Clerk's Department has been continued with good results.
Hospital Accommodation. The accommodation available at the Isolation
Hospital is the same as at the time of my last Annual Report. During the
year the local Government 3oard expressed the view that the site of the Hospitals
was not suitable for the isolation of cases of small-pox and for this
and ether reasons the proposed alterations to the Pavilion have been deferred.
I am, however, of opinion that there is no substantial objection to the site
for the purpose named end that the Council should proceed with the alterations
to the Pavilion so as to make it available for the use of diphtheria patients
of both sexes in lieu of the lower Hospital, or that the Lower Hospital now
dilapidated should be demolished and another similar one erected.
The accommodation at the Isolation Hospital was at all times during
the year sufficient for the needs of the District.