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No Orders were issued during 1969 for areas affected with swine fever. Three
movement licences giving notice of animals being moved into the borough were
received.
No case of notifiable disease in animals occurred within the borough during the
year.
The Diseases of Animals (Waste Foods) Order, 1957, requires licensing where
plant and equipment are used for the boiling of waste foods for animal feeding. There
are fourteen pig keepers within the borough and their premises are inspected
periodically by the public health inspectors. Only three of these use plant and
equipment for the boiling of waste foods and they are duly licensed.
The Riding Establishments Act, 1954, empowers a local authority to inspect
premises used as riding establishments and to license them if satisfactory. Riding
Establishment means any stables or other premises whatsoever at which horses are
kept for the purpose of being let out on hire for riding or of being used in providing,
in return for payment, instruction in riding.
It is an offence for any person to let out on hire or use for providing instruction
any horse in such condition that its use for that purpose will be likely to cause
suffering to the horse, or to keep a horse for these purposes in so neglected a state or
in such conditions that suffering is, or is likely to be, caused to the horse.
There were five licensed riding establishments in the borough at 31st December,
1969.
Under the Pet Animals Act, 1951, no person may keep a pet shop without an
annual licence granted by the local authority. The licence contains conditions relating
to suitable accommodation, provision of food and drink, avoidance of the sale of
mammals at too early an age, prevention of infectious disease and fire precautions.
The number of persons licensed at the end of the year was sixteen. All premises
were inspected and found to be satisfactory.
The Animal Boarding Establishments Act, 1963, provides that no person may
keep a boarding establishment for dogs or cats without a licence from the local
authority. In addition to provisions similar to those required by the Pet Animals Act,
1951, the person licensed must keep a register of animals and their owners. Three
persons were licensed to keep an animal boarding establishment. These premises
were visited and found to be satisfactory.
IONISING RADIATIONS
The Atomic Energy Authority was established under the Atomic Energy Act,
1954, which made it the duty of the authority to ensure that no ionising radiations
from discharged waste "caused any hurt to any person or any damage to property
whether he or it is on any such premises (occupied by the authority) or elsewhere ".
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