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LICENSING ACT, 1961 - APPLICATIONS FOR CLUB REGISTRATION
Applications for Club registration under the provisions
of the Licensing Act are dealt with at the local Magistrate's
Court. However, before the applications are considered by
the Magistrate copies are forwarded to the Council for observation.
Visits are made to the premises requiring registration by the
Public Health Inspectors to ensure that the minimum requirements
as a Public Health and Food and Drugs Authority are met.
Reports were made in respect of 23 club premises during
the year.
PIGEON NUISANCE
The Health Department continued to take such measures as
were possible to reduce the nuisance from pigeons in the Borough,
and the total number of birds destroyed by the end of the year
was 668. The main method is by trapping, using specially designed
traps for the purpose, and in addition to the birds destroyed a
considerable number of pigeon eggs were collected and also destroyed.
OUTWORKERS
The houses of persons employed on outwork are periodically
Inspected by the Public Health Inspectors to ensure that working
conditions and cleanliness are satisfactory, and the latest returns
received from employers of outworkers indicate that the number of
persons employed as outworkers totalled 140.
A further 130 persons who live outside the area of the Borough
are, however, employed by local industry.
The nature of the work is as follows:-
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