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kept, as regards the others, one of which is at present closed,
some much needed alterations have been satisfactorily carried
out under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspector, which may
be summarised as follows:—
Lime-whiting and general cleansing in response to special
notices 8
Bell traps removed and syphon gully outside bake-house
substituted 4
Sink waste disconnected from sewer and made to discharge
over outside gully 2
Stable opening into bake-house done away with, and drainage
generally reconstructed with new connection to
Council's sewer 1
New River water laid on 1
In one instance alterations are suspended pending new
water supply.
Slaughter-houses.
These have been regularly inspected, no new ones have
been licensed during the year, and no alterations have been
made. They are for the most part as well kept as circumstances
will permit.
Gipsy encampments and moveable dwellings.
Many complaints have been received respecting gipsies,
chiefly from residents in the Town Road, and roads abutting
thereon, the complaints relate for the most part to fowl stealing
and petty depradations.
Great difficulty is felt in dealing with these gipsy encampments,
quite 200 removals have been effected during the year,
but it is found that the removal is made only to a short distance,
and that the same, or a similar, lot are found encamped on the
same spot in the course of the following day ; there are certain
plots of land in the district which the fear of the rate collector
appears to prevent the owners from enclosing, which seem to
offer special attractions to van-dwellers, viz., those situated, at
the end of Granville Avenue, between the Town Road and the
Bounce's Road, and at the end of St. Joseph's Road ; when moved