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SECTION G. OTHER SERVICES SUPERVISED BY
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Diseases of Animals.
Routine inspections were made as follows: Movement
licences, 11; Swine Fever, 16; and interviews, 56. No serious
outbreak occurred within the area.
Registries for Female Domestic Servants.
One complaint was investigated, and the contravention was
remedied; otherwise there is no special comments under this
heading.
Retail Market.
During 1944 the monthly average takings was £5 and the
weekly £1 2s. 10d., compared with 1938 pre-war, monthly £55,
and weekly £12 12s. 0d. Naturally difficulties of transport,
operation of rationing and bombing are prime factors in proving
these meagre war-time results. As controls relax contons
will improve, and in the first six months of 1945 the
Monthly average is £6 2s. 0d. and weekly £1 9s. 0d.
Petroleum Acts.
Total number of licences issued:—
(a) for Petroleum Spirit 87
(b) for Carbide of Calcium 1