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The Chief Public Health Inspector could see no good improvement coming
from the R.S.P.C.A. inspector's suggestions.
In consequence the Committee resolved:-
(a) That the proprietress be asked to arrange as soon as possible for
the premises to be cleared of all animals, sealed and fumigated for a
period of three weeks, none of the animals to be brought back there after
the rest period.
(b) The Town Clerk be authorised to take proceedings if he has reasonable
cause to believe that an offence has been committed at the kennels.
The Town Clerk later reported that Counsel advised that a condition
requiring two separate rest periods each year would be possible and
enforceable but he did not think that the condition should forbid the
return of stock previously at the premises.
The licence subsequently issued contained a condition on the above
lines and an additional condition in which no animal which has been present
on the said premises for 12 hours or more during the seven days immediately
preceding a rest period shall be brought back onto or kept on the said
premises within seven days immediately following the conclusion of the same
rest period provided always that this condition shall not apply in respect
of any animal which has been examined by a qualified veterinary surgeon
once during the seven days immediately preceding the commencement of a
rest period and once during the seven days immediately preceding the
termination of the same rest period and has been certified on both such
occasions to be free from infection and/or contagious disease.
Just how these conditions are going to prevent the death of some of
the animals it is difficult to see bearing in mind that some hundreds are
sold yearly and delivered to the kennels from all parts of the country.
Animal Boarding Establishments Act 1963.
An application for a licence to keep a boarding establishment was
received from the proprietress of the above kennels but later withdrawn on
the advice of her solicitor whose opinion was that proviso (a) in Section
(5) of the Act excluded her business from the provisions of the Act.
The Town Clerk advised that the solicitor's interpretation was not a
correct one and although he (the Town Clerk) was of the opinion that an
offence had been committed he would not advise taking proceedings.
Rag, Flock and other Filling Materials Act 1951.
There were no premises registered under this Act.
Essex County Council Act, 1952.
Section 103.
One application was received for registration as Hawker of Foods
under the Act. The number now registered is 18.
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