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Bakehouses.
A list of the bakehouses, with details as to their sanitary
condition, is given in a separate summary which includes 35.
All were under periodical inspection, and though 37 contraventions
of the Factory Acts were found during the year most of these
were not serious, and generally speaking, the bakehouses in the
district may be said to be fairly satisfactory.
Slaughter.houses.
A separate list of these is also given. There are 14 private
slaughter.houses in the district, either registered or licensed, but
several of them are not in use. One public slaughter.house for
the whole district would be an immense improvement on this
from the public health point of view, but the difficulties of establishing
and maintaining such a place are at present too great to make
this matter a practical one. In the meantime it is to be hoped
that the Council will continue the rule they have wisely adopted
during the past eight years, and refuse to allow any additional
slaughter.house to be established. It is true that during the past
year one new slaughter.house was built, but an old one was given
up in exchange. 277 inspections were made and 28 contraventions
of the bye.laws dealt with.
Cow.sheds, Dairies and Milk.shops.
A separate list of these will also be found at the end of this
Report. Much importance has been attached during the past years
to improving the sanitary condition of all places concerned in the
production or sale of milk in the district, but the powers of local
authorities are limited, and it has often been difficult or impossible
to get wrong, but not illegal, conditions altered. As new legislation
appears likely soon to be in force dealing with the whole question
of the provision of a pure milk supply, the matter need not be
further referred to here. During the year 510 inspections of cowsheds
and 2483 of dairies and milk.shops were made, a total of
almost 3000 inspections of places occupied wholly or in part by
persons engaged in the milk trade.