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It will thus be seen that, having regard to the area
of the Borough, the district is well provided for everyday
purposes of sanitary work, and, as a result of the
efforts of these officers, we have a constant output of
above 150 notices served in each and every week.
In addition to this, what I may term the ordinary
every-day work, your Committee appointed Mr. W.
Billings to succeed Mr. Jones in assisting with the
special duties in connection with combined drainage
works, the drainage of new premises, and the enforcement
of bye-laws in connection therewith, and I have
every reason to hope that the specially high level of this
Department taken for some years past in connection
with all drainage matters will be continued.
The other special officer, Mr. Rowsell, is as your
Committee are well aware engaged in the highly important
work of food inspection, the inspection of the
markets, procuring of samples under the Sale of Food
and Drugs Acts and otherwise generally making the
food of the people of the Borough his special important
work.
I cannot speak too highly of the work done in this
direction. This officer has been most valuably assisted
by other officers at different times of the year, viz.:—
Mr. Ainley and others. They are constantly on the
look-out for complaints as to unsatisfactory foodstuffs
which has resulted as a matter of fact in the past year
in 22 rabbits, 8½ cwt. of meat, 6½ cwt. of fish, 10¾ cwt.
of fruit, 2½ cwt. of tomatoes, ½ cwt. of onions, 70 quarts
of ice cream and 630 eggs having been surrendered or
seized.