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BAKEHOUSES.
There are 52 Bakehouses in the Borough, including 12 underground
and 4 factory bakehouses. The latter term is applied
to those using mechanical power, and they are under the
supervision of H.M. Inspector of Factories. The others are
regularly visited by the Sanitary Inspectors and occasionally by
myself.
The majority are clean and well kept, in others there is
occasionally a general want of cleanliness, but no serious defects
have been reported.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT.
By the Authority of Section 26, 53, and 54 Vic., c. 8, and
Section 11, 3, Edward VII, c. 46, exemption from Inhabited
House Duty is granted to owners of tenements of an annual value
of less than £40, if the Medical Officer of Health is satisfie 1 that
they afford suitable accommodation for each of the families or
persons dwelling therein, and that due provision is made for their
sanitary requirements. During the year, 166 tenements were
visited and examined, certificates were granted in connection with
60 of these, and to 82 others after certain ntcessary improvements
were carried out.
In four cases, affecting 24 tenements, certificates were
refused.
DISEASED AND UNSOUND FOOD.
In addition to the unsound food condemned and destroyed
during the year, details of which are given in the Report of the
Chief Sanitary Inspector, a carcase of diseased meat was seized
in the shop of a local butcher. The animal was extensively infected
with Tuberculosis, practically every part of the body showing
signs of this disease. As such a condition must have been
obvious at the time of slaughter, little excuse could be offered for
exposing such food for sale. Proceedings were taken, and a fine
of £10 and costs inflicted.