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SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
All the slaughter houses in the district, ten in number, were
visited during the year. Amendments involving considerable
alterations were made in respect of four of the slaughter houses,
but the general condition of the private slaughter houses leaves
much to be desired.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Legal proceedings were taken in the following cases, the
Council being uniformally successful in securing judgment in
their favour :—
Description of Nuisance. No. of Cases. Resuit.
Smoke nuisance 1 Appeal to Quarter Sessions against
the Magistrate's decision in
favour of the Council (imposing
a penalty and abatement order)
dismissed with costs.
Insanitary condition of gipsy
caravans 10 Penalties imposed and orders to
abate made in each case.
Houses unfit for human
habitation 5 Closing orders obtained in each
case.
Houses without water supply 3 Penalties imposed.
Refusal to disinfect after
infectious disease 1 Penalty imposed.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT.
164 premises were inspected at the request of the owners
with a view to granting the necessary certificate claiming
exemption from inhabited house duty in accordance with the
terms of Section 26 of the above Act.
Such certificate was granted where the sanitary conditions
of the premises warranted, but a large proportion of the applications
was in respect of properties where I found it necessary to
withold the certificate.