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Slaughter Houses.
No animals were killed at slaughterhouses within the district.
Bakehouses.
The last of the underground bakehouses in the district was the subject of
an adverse report. The Council therefore decided to withdraw the Certificate
of Suitability. The occupiers' appeal to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction against
this decision was adjourned for some months to enable them to make satisfactory
alterations to the bakehouse.
Adulteration.
The Kent County Council Sampling Officers took 159 samples of various
foods in this district. Included in the total were 50 samples of milk, 9 butter,
9 margarine, 6 cooking fat, 5 sausage, 4 whisky, 4 gin, and 17 drugs.
Four of the 159 samples were found to be of inferior quality and two
adulterated. Legal proceedings were not taken.
Factories Act, 1937.
Visits paid to factories totalled 170, and in addition to verbal intimations
regarding small defects, 22 written notices were served and complied with. These
dealt mainly with minor defects.
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919, and Infestation Order S.R.O., 1943.
Complaints received from various parts of the district and investigated
numbered 347. When considered necessary, the drains of premises were tested
with smoke and any defects found made good. In no case was a major infestation
found.
The foul-water sewers were treated on two occasions during June and
December, pre-bait and poisoned bait being laid in the manholes and side entrances.
In June 298 manholes were baited and pre-bait takes recorded in 154. The figures
for December were 309 manholes baited and prebait takes recorded in 175.
One full-time rodent operative is employed and the following is a summary
of the work carried out by him at premises in the district :—
Premises surveyed 2,972
Premises reported infested with rats 347
Premises treated for rats 394
Premises where rat poison bait taken 342
Premises re-treated 308
Estimated number of rats poisoned 1,754
Number of rats trapped 20
Premises treated for mice 149
It was necessary to treat some premises on three or more occasions and
the total treatments for destruction of rodents numbered 984.