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2.—For carrying on business as Dairyman on unregistered
premises.
Fined £5 with daily penalty of forty shillings, in default
one month's imprisonment.
3.—For bottling milk in public street on two occasions.
Fined £2 and £3 3s. costs in each case,
and employer,
4.—For failing to use due diligence to enforce execution of
Regulations.
Case dismissed.
5.—For bottling milk in public street.
Fined £1 and £1 1s. Costs.
6.—For bottling milk in street.
Fined £1 and £1 1s. Costs.
7.—For causing milk to be bottled in street.
Fined £2 and £2 2s. Costs.
In the case of one dairyman whose registration was refused,
an appeal under Section 2 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment)
Act, 1922, from the decision of the Local Authority was made to
the local Magistrates. This was dismissed without prejudice to
a further application for Registration, when the premises were
so altered as to comply with the Local Authority's requirements.
In this case a prosecution followed for carrying on on unlicensed
premises with the result quoted above (No. 2).
Infectious Diseases and Disinfection.—During the year, visils
for the purpose of investigating cases of notifiable infectious
disease were made to 339 houses. Special visits were also made,
as required, for the purpose of following up and enquiring after
the health of persons who had been passengers on vessels
coming to this country, on which cases of infectious disease had
occurred, and of which notice had been received from the Port
Sanitary Authorities concerned. The information obtained
was handed to the Medical Officer of Health.
At 58 houses from which cases of notifiable infectious
disease had been reported, defective drains or other insanitary
conditions were found to exist, all of which were subsequently
remedied under the supervision of the officers of the Department.
Disinfection of rooms, bedding, clothing, etc., was duly
carried out after the removal to hospital or recovery of each
patient. Where necessary, the walls of the rooms from which
the cases had been removed, were stripped and re-papered or
distempered.
The number of rooms disinfected was 574, and the number
of articles, bedding, wearing apparel, etc., 14,895, full details
of which are given in the Report of the Medical Officer of
Health under the heading of " Disinfection."
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