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something like £50. There is a care-taker, who looks
after the place in consideration of his living rent free.
The house has proved useful, not only as a temporary
home during disinfection, but also for the accommodation
of healthy persons from families with disease
among their members, for whom hospital accommodation
could not be obtained.
The cost of disinfectants in the shape of fluid, powder,
and soap distributed gratis, and of sulphur candles,
during the year, amounted to £64 19s. 9d. in all.
Factory and Workshop Supervision. — A new
"Factory and Workshop Act," was added to the
legislation dealing with this subject during the year.
A short account of the chief sanitary provisions of the
new Act will be found in Appendix B.
During the year fifteen notices were received from
the Factory Inspector dealing with the following insanitary
conditions:- bakehouses requiring lime washing
(2); workrooms overcrowded (5); ditto dirty (8);
ditto dilapidated (1); and ditto without sufficient
water-closet accommodation (1). All the above
received the attention of the Department.
Legal Proceedings.—There were ten cases taken
before the Magistrate during the year, viz.:—
Bad meat and rabbits, fined £5 and £3 3s. costs.
Bad fish, fined £1 and costs.
For non-compliance with notices to abate nuisances, three cases,
orders made in each case, costs being obtained to the amount of 23/in
one case.
For non-compliance with the Magistrate's order, one case, costs
imposed 8/-.
Premises unfit for human habitation, one case. Closing order issued.
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