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condition, and provided 25 new bedsteads and bedding complete, besides new
kitchen utensils, and had the premises generally repaired and overhauled.
I had hoped that some enterprising man would have found some premises
of more modern construction for a common lodging house, as I have before
remarked the present premises are very old, and cannot ever be made into a
modern lodging house, indeed, it will soon have to be dealt with, together with
other houses adjoining, under the " Housing and Town Planning Act," but
before so doing it requires the careful consideration of the Council, as to condemn
the premises before arrangements have been made to provide for the 25 inmates,
means driving them into lodgings over which, in all probability, the Council
would have very little control.
SLAUGHTERHO-HOUSES AND FOOD INSPECTION.
The number of slaughter-houses in the district remain the same as last
year, viz:—7.
At the present time there are only five in use, one having been discontinued
for four or five years, and one about eighteen months. The twelve months
for which these two were licensed having expired, they are now unlicensed
premises.
The tendency of the butcher is to facilitate the work of the inspectors, and
should any carcase be doubtful it is put on one side for inspection.
The periodical limewashing is carried out, indeed many limewash much
more often than is laid down in your bye-laws. When defects have occurred
very little trouble is experienced in getting them remedied. (This is no doubt
a great deal to do with the "Public Health Acts Amendment Acts" having
given the local authorities the power to license from year to year.) Electric
light has been installed in one instance.
There were 568 animals inspected during, and shortly after, slaughter as
follows:—3 bulls, 49 oxen, 43 cows, 17 heifers, 6 calves, 192 sheep, 25 lambs
and 233 pigs.
The following offal was surrendered on inspection:—
I ox liver, I pig's head, I pig's pluck, I cow's lungs, liver, spleen and
mesenteric fat.
The practice of giving the retailers an opportunity of bringing articles of
food to be examined at the Town Hall is still adhered to, and if the articles are