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52
Premises where animals improperly kept were
removed or improved 4
Offensive accumulations removed 55
Urinals cleansed or repaired 2
Piggeries repaired or improved 3
Houses or parts disinfected and cleansed 270
Smoke nuisances abated 6
Houses at which drains were reconstructed or
new provided 2
Drains repaired, cleansed, trapped or ventilated 130
The byelaws relating to houses let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family were in four instances applied to
ensure the sub-tenants getting proper supply of water and the use of
other conveniences where the tenant had cut off access to such
services as a means of forcing the sub-tenant out of the house
without taking proper legal steps.
No applications were received for certificates under the Rent
Restriction Acts.
Food Inspection.—Six hundred and sixty visits were paid to the
seven slaughter houses; two of these are horse slaughter houses and
are rarely used. In the course of these visits the following quantities
of diseased or unwholesome meat was found and surrendered for
destruction :—Carcases of pigs, 4,821 lbs., of which 1,241 lbs. was
swine-fevered flesh, 1,990 lbs. tuberculous, 192 lbs. septic mammitis,
152 lbs. parturient fever, 120 lbs. jaundice, and 804 lbs. dropsical
flesh (the remaining 262 lbs. was either bruised or affected in
some way as to make it unwholesome) ; veal 45 lbs., 133 pigs'
livers, 467 pigs' lungs. In no case was any attempt made to conceal
any of the meat from the Inspectors, although there was some
difficulty in one or two instances in convincing the owner of swinefevered
carcases that the meat was unfit for human food.
Twenty-eight lbs. of haddocks, 40 lbs. of kippers, 28 lbs. of
carrots, 390 lbs. of potatoes, and 400 lbs. of turkeys were also
brought to me for examination by tradesmen and found unsound
and unfit for human food, and were surrendered for destruction.
Disinfection and Disinfestation.—Dibinfection has been carried
out at 270 houses after removal of infectious cases to the Wandle
Valley Isolation Hospital or recovery at their homes. Six thousand