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5.
4 applications were received for registration as dairymen
or purveyors of milk, all of which, were granted.
8 supplementary licenses were issued under the Milk (Special
Designations). Orders 1936 & 1938.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
The general sanitary supervision has been maintained and in
this connection 2,530 inspections have been made. As a consequence
of these inspections it was necessary to serve 9 Statutory Orders and
22 Intimation Notices. No legal proceedings were necessary.
Tenement Houses were inspected and the only common lodging
house in the City was kept under regular supervision.
HOUSING.
I The total number of dwelling houses inspected for housing
defects was 55. 32 were found not to be in all respects reasonably
fit for human habitation. All of these were rendered fit, in 17
cases as a result of informal action by the inspectors, and in 15
cases subsequent to the service of notices requesting the defects to
be remedied. No case of overcrowding in the City was reported.
FACTORY ACT, 1937.
Factory premises have been under such supervision as has been
possible having regard to their needs.
There are 3 above-ground bakehouses and 4 underground bake-
houses.
The provisions of the Act relating to. outworkers have been
carried out as heretofore,
No case of infectious disease was reported in connection with
outworkers' premises in the City.
SHOPS ACT, 1934.
110 shops and warehouses have been inspected and where
necessary re-inspected. Any defects have been remedied without
recourse to legal proceedings. In 1 case where satisfactory alternative
sanitary accommodation was available, and it was not
practicable to make provision on the premises, an exemption certificate
was granted.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933.
62 firms were registered under this Act, 61 of which were
re-registrations.
PHARMACY AND MEDICINES ACT, 1941.
The Pharmacy and Medicines Act, 1941, which came into
operation on the 1st July last, inter alea, prohibits, subject to
certain reservations, (1) the advertisement of any article in terms
calculated to lead to the use of that article for the purpose of the
treatment of human beings for any of the following diseases: Bright's
disease, cataract, diabetes epilepsy or fits, glaucoma, locomotor
ataxy, paralysis or tuberculosis; (2) the publication of advertisements
relating to abortion; (3) the sale of articles consisting of
or comprising substances recommended as a medicine without disclosure
of its composition. This latter clause, however, does not apply to
any particle made up for the use of any particular person, being an
article prescribed by reference to the needs of that person.
During the year a small number of infringements were detected,
In every case those were technical offences associated with old
stock. Offenders received cautions, as a result of which compliance
with the Act ensued in each case.