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(d) Inspection of Food Premises.
The following visits have been, made to food premises during
the year, and where defects have been discovered the requisite
steps have been taken to have them remedied.
Butchers' shops 164
Dairies and milk shops 53
Fried fish shops 17
Ice cream premises 61
Stalls 65
Other food premises 218
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919.
1,670 premises have been inspected, and it was found necessary
to carry out treatment in 154 of these. Two thousand nine hundred
and seventy visits were made.
A maintenance treatment of the sewers was carried out in May
and June when 671 manholes were prebaited; 368 of these showed a
prebait take and were poison-baited.
A second treatment was carried out in November and December
when 392 of the 671 manholes prebaited showed a prebait take and
were then poison-baited.
As in past years the Public Health Department and the Borough
Engineer's Department co-operated in carrying through the sewer
treatment, the Borough Engineer supplying the men to do the work.