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Rag and Bone
Shops.
These have been regularly visited, and have called
for no special action on the part of the officials.
Cow-Sheds,
Milk Shops, &c.
There is only i licensed cow-shed in the district;
this, together with the milk shops, etc., has been
subjected to constant supervision.
The Market,
night and day.
The market has been systematically visited both by
As I have remarked on previous occasions, the meat
exposed for sale is at times of somewhat inferior quality.
Dust Collection,
torily.
The pail system continues to work most satisfacThe
dust is removed weekly from every house in the district, and
from some of the streets in the poorer parts of the town twice or thrice
weekly.
The Destructor provided by the Board continues to work in a most
satisfactory manner both by night and day.
I again append (Table XXV.) a financial statement prepared by
Mr. H. O. Thomas, the Surveyor to the Board, relative to its use, which
shows a still greater saving financially than in the previous year.
Housing of
the Working
Classes Act.
In the course of the year 1898, I gave certificates in
respect of the 28 houses in Dicey Street, mainly on
the ground that the front basement rooms were
unfit for habitation owing to the insufficient area in front of
the window and the fact that on each side of the window the
earth was in contact with the walls, thus causing percolation of
moisture through the walls into the rooms. Notifications were
accordingly issued, and summonses were taken out in the case of
4 houses (Nos. 5 to 8 inclusive), but the Court dismissed them all, giving
costs against the Authority.
Since then the condition of the rooms has been made even worse
than before, the windows having been closed up and the areas filled in