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During the year applications for licences to keep
petroleum spirit and carbide of calcium were received as
follows:—
Petroleum Spirit.
No. of applications for licences 94
No. of applications granted 94
Quantity of petroleum spirit which may be
kept in licensed stores 127,520 gallons.
Carbide of Calcium.
No. of applications for licences 2
No. of applications granted 2
Quantity of carbide of calcium which may
be kept on licensed stores 448 pounds
Licence fees paid during 1938 £66.3.9
Nearly all the petroleum spirit is kept in bulk in underground
storage tanks and there are now installed in the
district no less than 181 of these tanks to which are connected
157 petrol supply pumps. Most of the hand-operated
pumps have now been replaced by electrically operated
pumps.
The various licensed premises have been inspected from
time to time, and a number of contraventions of the conditions
attached to the licences have been dealt with.
Staff.
This is the last Annual Report I shall have the honour
to submit, owing to my retirement in April, 1939. I, therefore,
wish to take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation
to the principal officers of the Council and to their
staffs for the kindly help I have received from them on every
possible occasion.
During my term of office six Medical Officers of Health
have served the Council and my relationship with all of them
has been of the most cordial character. I am deeply indebted
to Dr. Turner, your present Medical Officer of Health,
with whom I have had the privilege to work for the last
fourteen years, and to his predecessors, for their great kindness,
encouragement and support.
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