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Furniture Repairers 8
Jewellers and Watch Repairers 11
Laundries 20
Millinery 3
Motors 29
Printing 7
Smiths 4
Tailoring 19
Woodworkers 19
Miscellaneous 99
Total 374
OTHER MATTERS.
Underground Bakehouses in use at the
end of the year 3
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:—
Failure to affix Abstracts of Act Nil
Action taken in mat- Notified by H.M.
ters referred by H.M. Inspector Nil
Inspector as remedial Reports of action
under the Public taken sent to
Health Acts. H.M. Inspector Nil
Offensive Trades.—There were sixteen fish-frying premises
on the register. These were periodically inspected and found
to be carried on without nuisance.
Disinfection.—The number of rooms disinfected was four
hundred and sixty-eight, and the number of articles of bedding,
wearing apparel, etc., 4,218.
Special attention was given to cases of tuberculosis.
Whenever such patients were removed to sanatoria, or
changed their home addresses, a special visit was paid at the
earliest possible moment by one of the Sanitary Inspectors
with a view to thorough disinfection of rooms, bedding and
clothing being carried out.
A considerable amount of disinfection after cancer was
also carried out, at the request of relatives.
Eradication of Bed Bugs.—The number of houses dealt
with under this heading was as follows:—
56