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(ii) as regards premises that the premises are not suitable to
be used for the purpose.
This section, together with the new Food Bye-laws, is proving
useful in dealing with mobile canteens.
5. SLAUGHTERHOUSES. There are no slaughterhouses in
use in the Borough, although one licence to operate from 1st January—31st
December, 1952, was granted by the Council after very
careful consideration in respect of premises which were licensed
prior to the war and which had been completedy renovated and
improved following war damage.
6. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH
FOOD. Legal proceedings were taken in the following instances:—
Foreign matter in bread—defendants fined £5 0s. 0d. and
£3 3s.. 0d costs.
Unsatisfactory conditions in Mobile Canteen in contravention
of Food Bye-laws — defendant fined £5 0s. 0d. and
£2 2s. 0d.. costs.
7. HOUSING. I am indebted to Miss B. L. Allen, F.S.H.M.,
the Council's Housing Manager, for the following note on postwar
housing:—
In November the Council completed the 1,000th post-war
permanent dwelling and the key of this flat, No. 26, Campbell
Court, was handed to the new tenant by Mr. G. H. Charlton,
Principal Housing Officer, Ministry of Housing and Local
Government.
These first 1,000 properties comprise 650 houses, 317 flats and
maisonettes and 33 Aged Persons Dwellings. Owing to the rapidly
increasing shortage of building sites in the Borough the future
programme is almost entirely for flats.
There are still approximately 6,000 families whose names are
entered on the Council's waiting list for housing accommodation.
Of these approximately 1,100 require three-bedroom type accommodation,
the remainder can be accommodated in two-bedroom
flats or Aged Persons Dwellings.
About 1,100 families have made application for private builds
ing licences and 349 houses have been erected under private
licence in the Borough since the war, or are in the course of
erection.
8. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH
HOUSING. In four cases legal proceedings were instituted
against owners for failure to comply with Nuisance Abatement
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