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Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts, 1920-1933.
Applications for certificates under these Acts were received
from 72 occupiers of dwelling-houses in this Borough, and in every
case a certificate was issued to the applicant.
In 10 instances certificates were issued to owners indicating
that the requirements of the Sanitary Authority had been complied
with in respect of the property which was the subject of the issue
of a certificate to the effect that the premises were not in a reasonable
state of repair.

These businesses were regularly inspected during the year
and it was necessary to serve a notice in respect of one of these
premises.
Rag and Bone Dealers.
The number of rag and bone dealers' premises entered in the
Register at the end of 1935 was 27. Five notices were served
for insanitary conditions existing at certain premises.
In six instances the Public Health Committee directed that
cautions be administered to rag and bone dealers for contraventions
of the by-laws in respect of the exchange of toys for old clothes.
Rag Flock Act, 1911-28.
The above Act prohibits for the purpose of the manufacture
of certain articles, the sale and use of unclean flock manufactured
from rags.
Rag Flock shall be deemed to conform to the standard of
cleanliness, if the amount of chlorine does not exceed 30 parts of
chlorine in 100,000 parts of the flock.
Two samples of flock manufactured from rags, were submitted
to the Public Analyst for examination.
One conformed to the standard of cleanliness, and the other
was reported to contain 32.2 parts of chlorine in 100,000 parts of
the flock, an excess of 2.2 parts.
The appropriate committee directed that a caution in writing
be sent to the firm concerned.