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Number of other premises on which nuisances were
discovered —
,, informal notices served 54
,, statutory 4
,, nuisances abated 210

The slaughter-houses and common lodging house were found to be
kept in a satisfactory condition.
Several complaints were received of nuisance from the storage of
bones and from flies on premises used by a rag and bone merchant,
and the nuisance was abated on action being taken by the Council.
Schools.—The three elementary schools have a water supply
from the public mains, and are provided with water-closets draining
to the sewers. Two of the schools are of modern construction, and
the third was entirely re-modelled in 1911.
Notices are sent to the Head Teachers when a case of infectious
disease is notified in a house in which there are children attending
the school, and another notice is sent of the discharge of a: school child
from hospital.
The schools and homes of the patients are visited by the Health
Visitor of the County Council, on receipt of notifications of nonnotifiable
disease from the teachers, and I also visited the schools at
times of outbreaks of infectious disease, and advised as to precautions.
(4) Housing.
General Housing Conditions.—The figures relating to housing at
the Census, 1921, will be found on pages 3 and 4. At the Census,1911,
there were 1,152 private families, with a population of 4,795, in
approximately 1,090 houses ; in 1921 there were 1,271 families, with a
population of 5,160, in 1,164 houses. The number of families per
house was 1.09, as against 1.05 in 1911.
At the end of 1923 a special inquiry was made as to the number
of families and of inmates in the cottages throughout the District,
and particulars were obtained at 656 houses. It was found that 71
houses, or 10.7 per cent., were occupied by two or more families, but
in a majority of these cases the total number of inmates was small.-