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Mortuary and Disposal of the Dead.
See Annual Report for 1930.
One exhumation was carried out during the year, for transference
of the body of a child from one grave to another. The
arrangements and proceedings were carried out satisfactorily.
Schools.
The sanitary accommodation and water supply of the schools,
most of which are modern buildings, are satisfactory. Schools
have again played very little part in the dissemination of infection.
Their slight influence is referred to under the various infectious
diseases. No school has been closed or disinfected during the
year on account of infectious disease.
Sanitary Inspection of the District.
Report of the Sanitary Inspectors.
(a) Nature and Number of Inspections of:—
Houses 7,818
Bakehouses 34
Slaughterhouses 816
Milkshops and Dairies 65
Cowsheds 36
Foodshops 752
Infectious diseases enquiries 4,705
Rooms disinfected 56
Food poisoning enquiries 66
Visits to foster mothers' premises 44
Smoke observations 84
No. of nuisances investigated 320
Outworkers premises 42
Houses let in lodgings 47
Ice-Cream premises 161
Factories, Workshops, etc. 94
Other visits 38
(b) Notices served. Complied with.
Statutory 36 32
Informal 917 703
On the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act,
1901.
In this district there are 38 factories, 40 workshops, and
7 workplaces, to which visits were paid during the year as follows ;—