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III.—Sanitary Circumstances and Administration.
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Complaints 46
Closet Accommodation 46
Removal and Disposal of Refuse 46
Sanitary Inspection of the Borough 46
Magisterial Proceedings 49
Smoke Abatement 49
Fouling of Footways by Dogs 50
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 50
Pigeons, Nuisance caused by 51
Premises and Occupations Controlled by Byelaws or Regulations 53
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 53
Public Mortuary 55
Rag Flock Acts 55
Offensive Trades 55
IV.—Housing.
Housing Statistics 56
Housing Conditions in the Borough 58
(a.) General Observations 58
(b.) Sufficiency of Supply of Houses 58
(c.) Overcrowding 61
(d.) Fitness of Houses 61
(e.) Unhealthy Areas 63
( f.) Byelaws relating to Houses and Houses Let in Lodgings 64
(g.) Housing Survey 64
V.—Inspection and Supervision of Food.
Milk Supply 65
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924 66
Slaughter-houses 66
Bakehouses 67
Ice-cream Vendors 67
Fried Fish Vendors 67
Other Premises where Food is Prepared or Offered for Sale 67
Unsound Food 68
Food Poisoning 68
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 68
The Public Health (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations 69
Margarine 69
Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food 69
Magisterial Proceedings under Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 69
Nutrition, Dissemination of Knowledge as to 70
VI.—Infectious and Other Diseases.
(a.) Infectious Diseases Generally 71
Diseases Notifiable in the Borough 71
Notifications 71
Diphtheria 72
Scarlet Fever 74
Measles 74
Enteric Fever 75
Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery 75
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia 76
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 76
Poliomyelitis and Polio-Encephalitis 77
Encephalitis Lethargica 77
Chicken Pox 77
Smallpox and Vaccination 77
Venereal Disease 78
Disinfection 78
Infectious Diseases Shelter 78
Disinfestation 79