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Licence in respect of establishment at which
Tuberculin Tested milk is bottled. 1
Licences in respect of establishments in which
the process of pasteurising milk is carried on 2
WATER
Three samples of water were submitted for analysis and
all proved satisfactory.
HOUSING
I regret to have to report a further deterioration in
the housing situation. The number of families requiring
re-housing owing to statutory overcrowding or inadequate
housing considerably increased.
Several factors are responsible for this position, the
chief being houses destroyed or damaged by enemy action; no
now houses being erected; the return of members of H.M. Forces
and evacuated persons and the shortage of building labour and
materials.
The lack of maintenance to existing property has resulted
in the standard of fitness being greatly reduced and, if allowed
to continue, it will, in the near future add still further to the
list of insanitary and unfit houses, thus creating a still
greater housing shortage.
This is a matter of grave concern to the Department.
It is inevitable that sub-letting must occur under the
foregoing circumstances and a number of large houses have
been let to families, who live under most unsatisfactory
conditions, often in so-called furnished rooms with the
minimum of furniture, comfort and amenities, but to the benefit
of the landlord. A number of such cases have been, or are
being dealt with. 108 visits have been paid to premises