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removed whilst in the other the opportunity for the regular and
systematic inspection of the meat supply of the district is provided.
Bakehouses.
These have during the year been systematically visited
and compliance with the regulations enforced. There are 42 bakehouses
in the district, structurally many of them are most defective, but legally
the greatest difficulties exist for abolishing them.
Rag & Bone
Shops.
These have been regularly visited and have called for no
special action on the part of the officials.
Cow Sheds,
Milk shops &c.
There are three licensed cow sheds in the district, these
together with the milk shops, &c., have been subjected to
constant supervision.
The Market.
The market has been systematically visited both by night
and day, occasionally only has it been found necessay to seize food as
unfit for human consumption, the meat is frequently, however, of
poor quality.
Dust collection
The pail system continues to work most satisfactorily.
The dust is removed weekly from every house in the district, and from
some of the streets in the poorer parts of the town twice or thrice
weekly.
The destructor provided by the Board works very satisfactorily both
by night and day.
I append in Table XXV. an interesting financial statement prepared
by Mr. H. O. Thomas, the Surveyor to the Board, relative to its use.
Housing of
the Working
Classes Act.
The number of houses dealt with under this Act has
necessarily not been so large as in previous years. Certificates
were however given in reference to 6 houses and these were subsequently
demolished.
The question of the provision of better houses for the working classes
is one which must soon seriously occupy the attention of your Board