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(4) Arrangements for chemical and bacteriological work during the
year and their results.—Full particulars with regard to these arrangements
have been given under more appropriate headings. It may be noted at this
point, however, that under the Rag Flock Act, 1911, four samples were taken
and submitted to the public analyst who reported that three samples contained
30, 30 and 13 parts chlorine per 100,000 respectively, and the fourth sample 1,000
parts of chlorine per 100,000, an amount largely above the standard laid
down in the Rag Flock Regulations, 1912. Legal proceedings were instituted,
when the defendant laid an information against the manufacturers of the flock,
who were summarily convicted of the offence and fined £l0 and £7 7s. costs.
HOUSING.
Under this heading it will probably be sufficient to say that there is little or nothing
to be added to the information given in the reports for 1919 and 1920. So far as the
Council's scheme in respect of the "Fisherton Street" site, the gift of Lord
Portmati, is concerned, a certain amount of advance was made in the direction of
obtaining approval from the Ministry. A considerable number of the tenants were
moved out into houses in Exeter Street and Ashmill Street, etc., that had been put
into a habitable condition for them, and the premises vacated were prepared for
demolition. A house-to-house inspection of the occupied houses on the site was
carried out and, with the permission of the Council, the Housing Committee are
making an effort to put them into a proper state of repair.
Table A contains the information asked for by the Ministry. The Increase of
Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions; Act, 1920, so far as regards the provisions
of Section 2 (2), relating to certificates as to suitability for occupation of houses,
was comparatively little taken advantage of during the year, despite the fact that
numbers of posters notifying the existence of these provisions were displayed at the
Town Hall and elsewhere. The actual number of applications received was 7 and
only in one case was it found possible to grant the certificate asked for.