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Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954
Remarks made in the report for 1955 concerning the working of
this Act apply equally well to the year now under review.
The number of applications for certificates of disrepair were very
small, being no more than six, only one of which was subsequently
revoked. Of the six applications made, four only were granted, the
remaining two were refused.
Two further certificates were revoked, one having been issued in
1954 and the other in 1955.
Meat Inspection
Reference was made last year to the necessity for providing for
regular early morning inspections at a local meat wholesaler's
premises.
Arrangements were later made at the town where slaughtering
took place for the adequate inspection of carcases and consequently
it was possible in the early months of the year to relax the
inspections in this Borough.
The number of animal carcases examined locally is given below,
together with the items of meat and offal condemned and
surrendered:
Inspected:
Bulls 4 Boars and Sows 29
Bullocks 145 Lambs 428
Cows 164 Sheep 243
Calves 90
Pigs 1683 Total 2786
Condemnations:
Hind 1 Septicaemia 183 lbs.
Ox livers 6 Flukes 84 lbs.
Ox livers 2½ Flukes and abscess 34 lbs.
Ox livers 2 Tuberculosis 32 lbs.
Ox kidney 1 Abscess l lb.
Ox liver Abscess 24 lbs.
Cow liver Cirrhosis 14 lbs.
Pigs' heads 3 Tuberculosis 24 lbs.
396 lbs.
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