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UNSOUND FOOD DESTROYED.
10 Carcases of Pork (13cwt. lqr. 181bs.).
9½ Pigs' Heads (decomposition), 1 Ox and 1 Sheep's Livers.
2 Sets of Sheep's Lungs. 18 Rabbits.
1 Calf's Head and 4 Calves' feet.
1 Cod Fish, half barrel of Herrings.
58½ 1bs Apples, 31bs. Tomatoes.
HOUSE DRAINAGE,
During the year the old drains of 153 houses and premises
were examined or tested by your Inspectors, and, as a
result, 123 of these were found to be more or less defective.
A large proportion of the drains dealt with were exposed
for examination under section 41 of the Public Health Act,
1875, and, as stated in my report for the preceding year, this
method is far more reliable than the application of any tests
which your Council's officers would be legally justified in applying.
Under the above Act, the Council has only been able
to authorise their inspectors to enter premises for the purpose
of opening the ground to examine drains definitely stated in
writing to be in such a condition as to be a nuisance or injurious
to health. The Council's authority will be considerably
strengthened and extended, however, by Section 34 of
the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, which empowers
a local authority to direct their officer to expose and
examine drains, provided he first reports that he has reason
to suspect that such drains are a nuisance or injurious to
health.
The work of reconstructing defective drains has, as usual,
been carefully supervised by your inspectors, and sufficient
attention to all details of the work was secured by frequent
visits to the premises while it was in progress.