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SECTION D.
HOUSING.
During the year 19 houses were completed by private builders
and housing certificates were issued.
No houses were built by the Council.
SECTION E.
CONTROLLED TRADES.
Milk Production.
There are 17 dairy farms in the District, which include ten
farms licensed by the County Council for the production of Accredited
Milk and one farm for the production of Tuberculin Tested Milk.
Inspections of these farms are carried out by the Sanitary
Inspectors, and suitable advice given on the production of clean milk
and the general hygiene of the premises.
Meat.
There are 4 slaughterhouses in the district licensed under
Section 57 of the Food and Drugs Act, but none is in regular use for
slaughtering animals, this being prohibited during the war by the
Livestock (Restriction on Slaughtering) Order, 1940.
SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
During the year 1943, no case of Smallpox or Typhoid Fever
occurred, but three cases of Paratyphoid Fever were notified.
The progressive decline in the incidence of Diphtheria over the
last two years has continued and would seem to be correlated with the
immunisation campaign which has so successfully been carried on.
There were 8 cases of Diphtheria during the year as compared with
25 in the year 194'2, and these included 1 fatal case, a child of 3 years,
who had not been immunised. This high fatality rate emphasises the
fact that Diphtheria is a very dangerous disease, especially to young
children, unless medical treatment is obtained very promptly.
Scarlet Fever continues to be very prevalent, though the cases
were, on the whole, very mild, and there was no death from this
disease.
The notifiable diseases of the central nervous system were few
in number, but they included three deaths from Cerebro-spinal Fever.