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Vigorous measures have been employed in the effort to prevent
fly breeding. Circulars have been issued to all keepers of cattle,
horses, pigs, etc., requesting the removal of all manure twice a
week; the application of dry powdered lime to all fermentative
material; the use of formalin sprays and fly traps in houses, meat
and food shops, and protective covers for meat, milk, fruit, etc.
The measures referred to have proved verv effective in the way of
ensuring a pure food supply and the prevention of the possibility
of the spread of disease. Similar vigorous measures have been
extended in the direction for the extermination of rats.
In all, 3,834 visits to houses and inspections of premises have
been made during the year, these include houses from which complaints
of nuisances have been received, houses in which cases of
infectious diseases have occurred, inspection of works in progress,
also inspections—house-to-house, food shops, dairies, cow-sheds,
bakehouses, slaughter-houses, piggeries, workshops, petroleum
stores, canal boats, etc.
Every effort has been made to remedy all nuisances or insanitary
conditions where found to exist.
The number of houses inspected from house-to-house is 279.
Cautionary notices served to abate nuisances under the provisions
of the Public Health Acts, numbered 143, and the Housing (Town
Planning) Acts 407. In each instance the works, both of repairs
and general cleansing, have been carried out satisfactorily, and in
the main expeditiously.
HOUSE DRAINAGE.
During the year the number of stopped drains opened and
cleansed was 80. The drains of 14 premises were entirely reconstructed,
9 inspection chambers, 1 soil pipe, 27 pedestal closets and
4 intercepting traps were built.