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SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
There are 3 registered slaughter-houses in the district,
which have been regularly inspected and reported
on through the year. Two of the buildings are now
quite modern in construction. All have been kept in
good sanitary condition. At present inspection of the
meat killed is made from time to time, but not systematically.
There is no inspector for this purpose with a
special certificate in meat inspection, but the present
officer has had a good deal of practical experience in
this department in his previous appointments. No carcases
affected with tubercular disease were found at any
of the inspections.
BAKEHOUSES.
There are now six of these in the district, all of which
have been regularly inspected and reported on. Nearly
all are of modern construction, well lighted and ventilated,
and kept in good sanitary order. The unsatisfactory
one mentioned in my last report has now been
•closed. There are no underground bakehouses in this
district.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT.
A record of work done in this connection will be
found on the form supplied for this purpose by the Home
Office attached to the end of this Report. Employers
are required under this Act to notify the Local Sanitary
Authority twice yearly of the names and addresses
of all their outworkers.
There were 20 inspections made of Factories and
174 of Workshops. We have 45 Workshops upon the
Register.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES, &c.
There is ample house accommodation in the district
for all classes, but rents for houses of the working-class
type are very high and this has a decided tendency to
encourage overcrowding. Very many of the houses are
made to accommodate two families, though not originally
built with this intention, and therefore not always
suitable for the purpose. There are over 300 flats in the
district. Some property in Shelley Road, Milton Road
and Redcliffe Terrace has given a good deal of trouble
on account of its unsatisfactory condition, but all of
this has now been put into a state of good repair. In
these matters it is not always the landlords who are
wholly to blame; some tenants of this class of property