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The floors to sculleries and bathrooms are of a patent composition.
The living rooms are provided with range, and have an average
area of 178ft. super.
Overcrowding.
Overcrowding of a gross nature is still prevalent. All measures
practicable at this juncture are being taken to deal with this
vast problem. The whole question has been so often before
explored and explained in all its difficulties and intricacies, that it
does not behove me in this report to enlarge upon a matter of
such common knowledge. I cannot, however, refrain from
emphasising again the supreme importance ot the problem in
regard to health.
Prosecutions, 1928.
Prosecutions were instituted in no fewer than 529 instance
as follows:—
Nuisances (Public Health Act) —
436 Summonses. 214 Summonses withdrawn.
Failure to comply with Magistrate's Orders—
30 Summonses. 2 Summonses withdrawn.
Adulterated Butter—
1 Summons. 1 Summons withdrawn.
Adulterated Milk—
6 Summonses. 4 Summonses dismissed.
Adulterated Vinegar—
1 Summons. 1 Summons withdrawn.
Selling Milk without being Registered, contrary to Milk and
Dairies Order, 1926—
1 Summons.
Selling- Milk from a Can which had not Name and Address
conspicuously inscribed thereon, contrary to
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915—
1 Summons.
Selling Separated Milk from a can which was not marked, contrary
to the Milk and Dairies Order, 1926—
1 Summons.
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