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Food.
Premises and Occupations controlled by Byelaws or
Regulations.
There are no Common Lodging Houses within the
Borough, and there are no Byelaws with regard to Houses
let-in-Lodgings.
The only Offensive Trade in the district is that of
fish-fryer. This trade is carried on at three places.
One place was re-opened after being closed for three
years, and new frying apparatus was installed. In
another a new hood of sufficient breadth was inserted
to carry off the fumes arising from frying. The third
was in a satisfactory condition.
FOOD.
Milk Supply.
There are three cowsheds registered in the district.
During the year 22 visits of inspection were made and
although there were contraventions of the Regulations
on seven occasions defects were promptly remeded
on notices being served. The general condition of
these cowsheds was found to be satisfactory.
These cowsheds supply but a very small proportion
of the needs of the community the district being dependent
on outside sources for its milk supply. This supply
as delivered to the retailers has been far from satisfactory.
The amount of deposit, or manurial contamination has
shown no improvement during the last few years, in
fact one has felt that conditions pertaining at the
farms must have been worse than during pre-war times
when the Sanitary In, pectors were ab'e to give cowsheds
greater supervision. Farmers in genera have
not so far recognised their duty in the production of