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in use. During last year only nine were occupied, and I append
below the four quarterly returns made to me by Mr. McCunn,
your Veterinary Surgeon, with the number of cows examined.

In this connection the Council supported Resolutions passed
by other Sanitary authorities recommending the Government
to bring into force the Tuberculosis Order, 1914, made by the
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the operation of which
was suspended by an amending order before the date of its
commencement.
Due to the extending use of modern plant during the year,
considerable alteration has been made in the arrangement for
dealing with offensive fumes at one large works, the efficacy of
which has not yet been fully tested. The 90 bakehouses in the
northern part of the Borough and 83 in the south have been
found kept in a cleanly condition and without nuisance. 44
of these are underground bakehouses which were duly inspected
by the Public Health Committee and licensed under Section 101
of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.
The slaughter houses of the Borough number 29, of which
11 are registered and IB are annually licensed. Only slight use
is made of several of these owing to the convenient proximity
of Smithfield, and the licences are probably retained more on
account of the commercial value they add to the premises than
for the actual requirement of the business. Constant supervision
of scattered private slaughter houses without an impossible
number of Inspectors is impossible, but I feel justified in
saying that both in the case of registered houses and certainly
in the annually licensed houses the Inspectors pay a reasonable