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registration of houses let in lodgings, it was suggested that a female
Sanitary Inspector should be appointed for the purpose of inspecting
workshops where females were employed, and the homes of female
out-workers. The Vestry adopted this suggestion and subsequently
the Local Government Board signified their assent to this proposal.
With this extra assistance considerable progress should be
made during 1898 in the inspection of the above class of work-shops.
CANAL BOATS ACTS, 1877-1884.
Owing to the resignation of the Inspector appointed for the
inspection of canal boats in the month of July, 1897, and delay in
appointing his successor, the total inspections for the year declined
upon the number for 1896. The total inspected and re-inspected
was 43, of these 38 were found to conform with the Acts and Regulation
and in five instances infringements were found. Notices were
served by the Inspector in these five cases, attention being immediately
given in three cases and legal proceedings had to be resorted to in two
instances with the following results :

VEHICLES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF INFECTED AND
DISINFECTED ARTICLES.
At a meeting of the Sanitary Committee held on the 7th of
January, 1897, I reported that the vehicles used in the conveyance
of infected and disinfected articles in the District were too small for
the work to be done and, being only hand carts, much time was lost
in both collection and distribution of the articles disinfected; the
articles ought, in my opinion, to be returned to their owners on
the same day they were taken from the infected home ; and suggested
that two light vans and horses, &c., should be purchased, and accomodation
for the same be provided.