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Eight licenses were granted to sell "certified milk" and one
to sell "Grade A."
Butchers and Slaughterhouses.—There are 1 registered and 2
licensed slaughterhouses in the district. There are 27 butchers
in the district, but hardly any of the meat sold in the butchers'
shops is slaughtered in the district. Most of the butchers obtain
their meat from Smithfield. In one of the slaughterhouses very
few animals are slaughtered. In the other two slaughterhouses the
carcases are used for sausage meat. One is owned by Messrs. T.
Wall and Son, Ltd., and the other by Messrs. Woodhouse Hume,
Ltd.
During the year the following articles of food were surrendered:
4 stone cat fish.
1 pig's carcase (290 lbs.)
1 side pork (90 lbs.)
1 pig's head.
3½ barrels crabs.
1 barrel Jersey potatoes
1 pig's head.
1 crate bananas.
1 box cod.
1 case cod.
1 pigs's carcase (4 sc. 11 lbs.)
29 crates plums (20 lbs. each crate).
2 small crates bananas.
1 pig's carcase (156 lbs.)
1 pig's carcase (26 sc. 13 lbs.)
1 sow (330 lbs.)
Bakehouses.—There are 33 bakehouses in the district. Of these
'-8 are underground.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restriction) Act 1920.—
The number of applications received under Section 2 of the Act was
19, and the number of certificates issued was 13.
Some misapprehension exists as to the powers of the Council
under this Act, and some confusion exists as to the work which
can be included in the schedule in order to render the house reasonably
fit for human habitation. It was taken for granted that the
conditions which render a house reasonably fit for human habitation
should vary according to the locality of the house, and it seems
that some suggestion to that effect was made when the Bill was
before the House of Commons.
Smoke Abatement.—From the tabular statement it will be seen
that 92 smoke observations were made and 23 notices served.