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recommended that application be made to the Magistrates for the revocation
of the slaughter-house licence granted to E. Knifton. This was confirmed by
the Council on July 11th, but in September it was decided to defer this
action. In 1917 Knifton was granted the licence again!
On December 13th Inspector Winter found at a central slaughter-house
that a well-nourished young bullock, on being opened, presented signs of
acute peritonitis. I saw it that night, and on the following morning, with
Professor Wooldridge, who was present this time on behalf of the trade. The
parts affected were willingly surrendered by the butcher, sent to the Town
Hall Yard, and destroyed.
These two cases are an instructive contrast.
5. -KnaekePS. The yard, of which plans were approved on October
28th, 1914, and licence for one year granted in the next month, has not
yet been erected as proposed on land south-west of Eastbournia Avenue.
6.—Pig's. In June the Chief Inspector reported that 30 residents had
sent in a petition for the abatement of offensive smells from the piggery
connected with Ernest. Knifton's slaughter-house. This was by no means the
first time complaint had been made. It arises from the storage and boiling
of waste food from workhouses and restaurants. The Council agreed that
in the event of the nuisance being again created, legal proceedings be taken.
They were not.
7. Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops. -There are only 2 cowkeepers
now in the district, the same as last year; and only 25 cows are owned
by these keepers. Veterinary inspection of the cows is not undertaken in this
district, either by my Council or the County Counoil. There were 92
purveyors of milk on our register at the end of the year.
Co-operative Dairy. In February, the plans of the Co-operative
Society for an addition to their dairy of a loading room and cooling store
were disapproved. However, in March, another plan was submitted for
similar buildings, and a cooling house for bread adjacent to the existent
bakehouse in Shrubbery Road. The Plans Committee then approved of the
plans "as a building" on condition that the building, when erected, must
not be used as a dairy without the consent of the Counoil. To the Sanitary
Committee of the 5th April the plans were submitted in detail by Mr. F.
Bethell, and it was recommended and agreed to by the Council, that on
certain terms, permission be given to use the buildings as a dairy for a
period not exceeding two years from the date of the conclusion of peace
between Great Britain and her enemies. In September the licence was