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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
9 cases of over-crowding were abated, as .against 17 last year.
The sanitary inspectors in their house to house inspection frequently
discover cases of slight over-crowding, and these are often in houses
occupied by the same family. In all these cases last year a little
explanation was sufficient to remedy this without the service of any
notice.
3 wells were closed after analysis, by order of the Board, but
there still remain a number of wells which are used for domestic
purposes.
The rest of the items refer to the routine work of the sanitary
staff, and it is satisfactory to note, that the more serious insanitary
conditions as to drains and water supply, show a satisfactory diminution
as compared with last year.
C°mZ®!tine Although these are not properly under our jurisdiction,
yet careful supervision of their sanitary arrangement is a
necessity. They are frequently the means of introducing epidemic
disease into the locality; there are 12 of these in this sub-district
licensed to receive 2;30 lodgers. The drainage of some has been
reconstructed during the year.
Cow-houses. These, 14 in number, were inspected before the
renewal of the licenses In 1 which is not included in the above,
as the license was not applied for, the premises were in such an
insanitary condition, that I certified them to be an unfit place for
keeping cows. The number of cows kept in these 14, viz. 70,
diminishes every year, by far the greater amount of milk coming
from the country. In 3, no cows at all are kept, but the licenses
are kept up.
slaughter-houses. There are 9 of these in this district, and I have
visited and examined them as usual. The structural condition of
the majority of them is not at all satisfactory, although the tenants
do all in their power to fulfil the conditions of their license. Tiie
only remedy for this state of matters is the establishment of public
abbatoirs, which are built with due regard to our modern ideas.
Again iu public abbatoirs the meat can all be inspected by au expert