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INFLUENZA.
Eight deaths were registered as due to influenza,
against 32 deaths in the previous year. No official
action was taken in reference to this complaint, as no
application was made for the disinfection of any of the
houses in which death had occurred.
PHTHISIS.
The voluntary notification of phthisis, which your
Council decided upon on the 7th April in the previous
year, was continued last year. Altogether 143 cases
were notified to me. These, no doubt, represent only a
small proportion of the cases that occurred, as 175
deaths were registered, against 167 deaths in the
previous year. In all cases notified or in which death
occurred, the premises were at once inspected, and after
death in all cases occurring in dwelling houses an offer
was made to disinfect the premises at the expense of
your Council. In every case a printed instruction as to
the course that should be adopted for the prevention of
consumption was left at the premises. In several
instances advantage was taken of the offer of your
Council to disinfect the premises.
COUNCIL'S DUST SHOOT AT THE WHARF
CHANCELLORS.
During last year no complaint was made of a
nuisance from the depositing of the refuse at your
Council's wharf.
LICENSED SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
The whole of the 12 licensed slaughter houses in
the Borough were under regular fortnightly inspection
by the Inspector for offensive trades. At the annual
inspection of slaughter houses in October, 1903, I had
received notices that 12 licenses were to be applied for.