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Number of
Houses
Repairs
Informal Action
(4) Number of unfit or defective houses rendered fit during the
period as a result of informal action by the local authority
under the Public Health or Housing Acts 558
Action under Statutory Powers
(5) Public Health Acts
Number of houses in which defects were remedied after service
of formal notices: —
(a) by owners 340
(b) by local authority in default of owners 12
(6) Housing Act, 1936
Number of houses made fit after service of formal notices
(Sections 9, 10 and 16): —
(a) by owners 62
(b) by local authority in default of owners 4
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
Seventeen visits were paid and the carcases and organs of 39 pigs killed
were inspected during or shortly after slaughter. None was found to be
affected with tuberculosis. 23 carcases of which some part or organ was
condemned showed a percentage of the number inspected affected with disease,
other than tuberculosis, of 58.97.
The following organs were surrendered: —
19 sets of lungs, 4 plucks, 2 kidneys.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
Milk Supply.
Various licences were granted as under:—
Pasteurised
Tuberculin tested
Sterilised
Primary
48
25
105
178
Supplementary
19
16
18
53
Suplementary licences are granted to retailers who live outside the
Borough but who sell milk in the Borough ; the primary licence is granted by
the Authority in which the premises are situate.
The number of Dairies registered at 31st December, 1953, was 10.
26