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Notices Served.
Informal Notices 461
Statutory Notices 30
Enquiries—Outstanding Sanitary Notices.
733 letters were received during the year from the Clerk
of the Council enquiring whether or not there were any outstanding
sanitary notices with respect to certain properties
in the district. The necessary searches were made and the
required information furnished.
Disinfection.
Number of rooms fumigated after infectious disease 133
Verminous rooms sprayed and fumigated 43
Number of articles disinfected 7,628
Number of verminous premises dealt with 29
859 visits were made by your inspectors and disinfectors
in connection with cases of infectious disease and the necessary
investigations were made in order to furnish the
Medical Officer of Health with the detailed information he
required.
Cremation of Bodies of Domestic Animals.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals undertake the humane destruction of dogs and cats
suffering from disease, injury, old age or for some other
sufficient cause. In order to assist them in this work, the
department collects the bodies of these animals which are
cremated at the Borough Council's Destructor.
During the year the disinfectors collected the bodies of
92 dogs and 573 cats.
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