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Locai Management Act; being a total of 8,323 notices served
by the department.
The number of houses disinfected after infectious disease
was 2,069,and 5,275 supplies of disinfectants were given free of
charge to persons in whose abodes infectious disease existed.
Certificates of disinfection after infectious disease were granted
in 1,659 instances to the schools attended by children residing
in the houses in which disease occurred or to parents where
required to enable work to be resumed.
The total number of complaints received and attended to
during 1893 was 4,089. A register for such complaints for
each sanitary district is kept and submitted to the authority at
each meeting.
Proceedings
under
the various
Sanitary
Acts.
During the year legal proceedings were ordered in
forty-nine cases involving sanitation and Public
Health and twenty-four for offences under the Food
and Drugs Acts, together seventy-three. Magisterial orders were
obtained and enforced or the orders of the authority complied
with in seventy instances, the majority being to remedy sanitary
defects in dwellings or for breaches of the Adulteration Acts.
Some of the cases were of a different nature and are detailed
below.
Exposure
while
suffering
from infectious
disease.
On the Nov. 3rd the Chief Sanitary Inspector
detected J. W. C., an assistant at a fried fish shop,
who had been notified a few days before as suffering
from scarlet fever, serving persons in the shop.
After the man denying his name and with considerable difficulty
the Chief Inspector definitely established his identity. He
informed me of the facts and I accompanied him to the house
where I found the man desquamating profusely after scarlet
fever and at once arranged for his removal to hospital as he was
in the most infectious stage of the disease. Proceedings were