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NOTES UPON SANITARY WORK PERFORMED
DURING THE YEAR.
Inspection of the District was systematically carried out.
includinj visits to the dairies, cowsheds, slaughterhouses, bakehouses,
workshops, houses in which epidemic disease had broken
out, insanitary property, and routine house to house inspection.
In all, some 5,688 inspections were made, and nuisances to the
number of 1,665 were discovered.
164 complaints with regard to alleged nuisances were
received during the year, and prompt attention was given to
each.
156 rooms were fumigated after infectious disease; and
2,734 articles, chiefly bedding and wearing apparel, were disinfected
in the Council's steam apparatus.
A large number of house drains were reconstructed, the
work being supervised in a, thorough and satisfactory manner
by the Sanitary Inspector. A plan of each drain re-laid is
made by the Inspector, and this, together with all necessary
particulars, is filed for future reference.
The meat, fruit, fish and poultry shops, and premises
where food is prepared for sale, have been kept under observation,
and a considerable quantity of unwholesome food condemned
in consequence. The sanitary condition of the premises
has also received attention.
A full statement of the work done under the Nuisance
Sections of the Public Health Act, together with notes regarding
the dairies, slaughterhouses, etc., will be found in the
appended report of the Sanitary Inspector.