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SANITARY WORK.
The Sanitary work of the Department shows that a total of
16,327 houses and premises have been inspected or re-inspected
during the year; 1,573 intimation notices have been served, and
236 statutory notices, whilst it was only found necessary to issue
summonses and thus institute magisterial proceedings in seven
cases. There were altogether throughout the year 253 complaints
entered in the Public Complaint Register of the Department.
Bakehouses. One hundred and forty-three inspections
have been made of the various Bakehouses in the Borough, and
42 nuisances therein have been abated.
The occupier of one underground bakehouse was prosecuted
during the year for occupying and using the same without having
obtained a certificate as to the fitness of the premises for use as a
bakehouse as required by the Factory and Workshop Act. The
case was adjourned from time to time to allow the occupier to
have the bakehouse put in thorough order, and when the work
was satisfactorily completed the necessary certificate was issued
by this Council, and the proceedings withdrawn. The whole of
the underground bakehouses now have the necessary certificates;
the remaining one which had no certificate, but was in use at
the end of 1904, being now out of use, as large and substantial
premises have been built above ground.
In the case of several of the bakehouses situated above
ground, it has been found possible to obtain considerable improvements
on lines very similar to those adopted with reference to
underground bakehouses, and it is hoped that the whole of this
class of premises within the Borough will eventually be improved