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SCAVENGING.
Mr. Kramm informs me that a weekly collection of
refuse has been carried out, and 9 complaints of nonremoval
were received.
The question of the removal of house refuse is under
the consideration of the Council, and the Surveyor and
Sanitary Inspector have been instructed to draw up a
report on the matter.
A collection of refuse twice a week would greatly
conduce to the public health.
DAIRY FARMS, BAKE-HOUSES, SLAUGHTERHOUSES,
ETC.
There are Io Dairy Farms, 6 milk shops, 17 bakehouses
(3 underground), 7 s1aughter- houses, 18 butcher's
shops, 7 fish shops, and 7 laundries in the district. One
underground bake-house has not been used during the year.
These places have been carefully and regularly
inspected, and are now, on the whole, fairly satisfactory.
The sanitary standard of the dairy farms will have to be
raised in some instances-, and I will offer suggestions to
the Sanitary Committee on the subject.
MILK SUPPLY.
Such a large amount of the milk consumed in Harrow
is imported that its quality should be carefully investigated.
This can only be done by samples being taken at the
railway stations by your Sanitary Inspector. I have, in
my reports both annual and special, drawn attention to
the filthy condition under which some of this milk is
produced, and the insanitary manner in which it is
conveyed. Milk is the staple food of infants and invalids,
as well as being used in one way or another by all members
of the community, and its purity should be above
suspicion.
I respectfully and urgently recommend that arrangements
be made for samples of milk coming into the
district being taken for investigation. I cordially endorse
Mr. Councillor Hunt's recommendations in his paper read
last summer at the District Councils' Association