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This Council expressed their agreement with the views of
the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee and
decided to accede to their request to adopt a date not before
the 1st April, 1956, as the "appointed day." At the end of the
year copies of the draft bye-laws and forms were still awaited.
Pet Animals Act, 1952.
Under the provisions of this Act, no person may keep a pet
shop unless licensed to do so by the local sanitary authority.
During 1954 two applications were received for the issue of such
licences, and there were fifteen applications for the annual
renewal of licences, making a total of seventeen licensed pet
shops in the Borough at the end of the year.
The district sanitary inspectors kept all these premises
under observation in order to ensure that there were no infringements
of the provisions of the Act or failure to comply with the
conditions of the licence.
Sanitary Inspection of the Area.
Owing to the difficulty of securing the services of qualified
sanitary inspectors, the number of such officers was below the
authorised establishment for the major part of the year.
Towards the end of the year, however, the Council was
able to fill the vacancies and, in fact, increased the establishment
by appointing another district sanitary inspector in view
of the additional duties arising from the operation of the Housing
Repairs and Rents Act, 1954.
Complaints received numbered 5,658 during the year as
compared with 5,385 in 1953. The sanitary inspectors made
33,572 visits of inspection which are summarised in the following
table:—