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Barnet 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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The Council acts as agent for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Pood
in the matter of Deadweight Certification of Pigs. During the year your
inspectors have issued 21+3 certificates covering 1 ,232 pigs.
For this service the Council receives from the Ministry 6d per pig certified,
with a minimum of 3/- per certificate.
There were thirteen persons licensed by the Council as fit persons to
slaughter animals, most of them work part or full time as slaughtermen at the local
slaughterhouse. No complaint has been received from other districts concerning
the conduct of any of these men, nor was there any need for adverse report on the
men locally employed.
DRAINAGE.
Supervision was given by the department to the repairing of a combined drain
where the work was carried out by the Council and the expenses apportioned between
the owners.
Apart from the normal repair jobs to drainage systems the department is
responsible for the approval and supervision of construction of domestic sewage
disposal plants in the unsewered areas of the district and in this connection three
new houses were constructed with sewage disposal plants.
REPORT REQUIRED BY SECTION 128
Inspection for purposes of provision as to health.
| Number on Register. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Occupiers Prosecuted. | ||
| (l) Factories in which Sees. 1 ,2,3, 1+ and 6 are to be enforced by Local Authorities. | 9 | 18 | - | - |
| (2) Factories not included in (1) in which Sec. 7 is enforced by the Local Authority. | 89 | 186 | - | - |
| (3) Other premises in which Sec. 7 is enforced by the Local Authority. | 10 | 8 | - | - |
| Total | 108 | 212 | - | - |