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Common Lodging Houses.
There are no Common Lodging Houses in the District.
Should there be any premises coming under this heading in the
future, they could be dealt with under Part V. of the Public
Health Acts Amendment Act, which has been adopted.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
There are 14 persons on the Register who carry on business in
the Urban area:—
Dairymen and Purveyors 3
Purveyors only 7
Cowkeepers 1
Cowkeepers and Purveyors 2
Cowkeeper and Dairyman 1
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About 12 other persons send milk into the District from outside.
I have no reason to think that the supply generally is otherwise
than as satisfactory as it can be under the present insufficient
powers which Local Authorities (having no special local Act) have
in proving the existence of tuberculosis and in dealing with
diseased dairy cattle.
Slaughter-houses.
There are four slaughter-houses on the register, two in the
Upper and two in the Lower Borough. One is now unused, owing
to the occupier of the premises having given up business. These
premises are regularly visited by the Sanitary Inspector.
Bye-laws are in force.
No special arrangement is made for the inspection of slaughterhouses
at the time of slaughtering by an Inspector with a special
certificate in meat inspection.
No carcases or parts of carcases have been found in a tuberculous
condition.
Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.
The Register now contains the following entries:-