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INFLUENZA.
Twelve deaths were registered as due to influenza,
against 13 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 7th April, 1902, was
continued during last year. Altogether, 109 cases were
notified to me against 143 cases in the previous year.
These, no doubt, represent only a small proportion of
the cases that actually occurred, as 172 deaths were
registered, against 165 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 private 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 many instances advantage was
taken of the offer of your Council to disinfect.
COUNCIL'S DUST SHOOT AT THE WHARF
CHANCELLORS.
During the 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, 1905, I had