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CONTRAVENTION OF SECTION 13, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT,
1938 (PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CONTAMINATION OF
FOOD) AND THE L.C.C. BY-LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION
OF FOOD.
Fines totalling £8 8s. with £5 5s. costs were imposed in respect of
dirty and insanitary conditions at a grocers and general stores.
The proprietor of a baker's delivery van was fined a total of £8 with
£5 5s. costs in respect of his failure to transport bread and cake confectionery
under clean and hygienic conditions.
Contravention of Section 3, Food and Drugs Act, 1938.
Legal proceedings were taken in respect of two offences concerning
contaminants in food. In both cases, the offenders were bakers, the
offending foreign bodies being respectively a cigarette end and a cockroach
which were found in loaves of bread. The cigarette end cost the
Defendant a fine of £10 with £3 3s. costs and a fine of £1 Is. with
£3 3s. costs was imposed in the second case.
INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS)
ACTS.
No certificate was issued during the year.
HOUSING.
1. Total number of dwelling-houses inspected for housing
defects (under Public Health or Housing Acts) 2,583
2. Number of dwelling-houses (included in (1) above) which were
inspected and recorded under the Housing Consolidated
Regulations, 1925 and 1932 (House to House Inspection) 236
3. Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a state so
ous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human
habitation 3
4. Number of dwelling-houses found not to be in all respects fit
for human habitation 1,159