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Particulars of samples purchased under the Food and Drugs
Act, 1938, and submitted to the Public Analyst, D. T. Lucke, Esq.,
B.Sc., F.I.C., are given on page 47 of this report.
PUBLIC MORTUARY.

SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA
Sanitary Inspection.
In considering the work carried out by the department under
the heading of sanitary inspection, it is not inappropriate to recall
the extreme difficulties which have been overcome by the Department
since the war in maintaining the enforcement of repairs to
property in the district—the difficulties arising in connection with
building licensing and issue of W.B.A. priority certificates; the
shortage of building materials and labour; and how at certain
periods it was necessary to obtain special concessions from the
Ministry of Works for supplies of such building materials as slates,
plasterboard, W.C. pans, etc., to sell to builders when such materials
were unobtainable through normal trade channels.
Added to these difficulties, the Department was unable to
obtain sanitary inspectors to replace those who had left the district
to take up appointments elsewhere.
All these difficulties were eventually overcome, but during
that period of stress much of the work of the Department in connection
with which Notices were being served came under the
heading of "war damage" or re-instatement of war damage repairs,