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Offensive Trades.
The only offensive trades carried on in the Borough are those of
Fur Skin Dressing and Poultry Slaughtering. These are controlled
under Special by.laws. They number at present: Fur Skin Dressers,
17; Poultry Slaughterers, 1. 36 inspections were made during the
year. There were no contraventions of the by.laws.
Infectious Diseases.
The occupied dwellings inspected during the year after infectious
disease numbered 1,748. This is a decrease of 94 upon the number
inspected during 1927. Any nuisances or sanitary defects found were
dealt with under the provisions of the above Act.
Housing and Town Planning Regidations.
A systematic inspection is being made and an accurate card
indexed record compiled of the housing conditions of the Borough.
The number of houses inspected under these regulations during the
year was 381.
Inspections other than on Complaint.
The number of inspections, other than those arising on complaint,
after infectious disease, and under the Housing and Town Planning
Regulations, made by the Inspectors during the year was 8,655, and
the nuisances or sanitary defects found were dealt with in the same
manner as those on complaint.
Nuisances or defects found on inspection were remedied in most
cases on service of an intimation notice only. The total number of
such notices served during 1928 was 6,021. The number of statutory
notices served was 1,828; and summonses were issued in 75 cases.
Rag and Flock Acts, 1911.1928.
There is only one factory in the Borough where Rag Flock is
manufactured. Three inspections w.ere made during the year, and
the conditions were found to be satisfactory on each visit.
The standard for purity enforceable under the above Acts only
applies to flock produced wholly or partly by tearing up woven, knitted
or felted materials, old or new.
On September 5th, 1928, I received a complaint of a consignment
(3 tons) of mixed hair and fibre received by a firm in this Borough.
On examination of a sample, the material was found to contain evidence
of serious pollution, 112 parts of soluble chlorine per 1,000; this
is 82 parts per 1,000 more than is allowed under the Rag and Flock
Acts.
Material of this sort can be used or mixed with other material for
use in making beds, or other articles of domestic or institutional use,
and be a very serious possible means of conveying infection, or at
least filth.