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carcase of any horse, ass, or mule, affected with or suspected
with glanders or farcy to report at once to the police.
Glanders broke out at four premises and certain horses
had to be slaughtered.
There was one case of swine fever. The respective
premises where these diseases occurred were subsequently
thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.
The Customs and Inland Revenue Act.
Under section 26 of 53 and 54, Vic. c. 8, exemption from
the Inhabited House Duty is granted to houses divided into
tenements of the annual value of less than £20, provided the
Medical Officer of Health certifies that they afford suitable
accommodation for each of the families or persons in respect
of their sanitary arrangements. By section 11, 3 Ed. VII.
this provision was extended to houses of the annual value of
not more than £40. During the year applications were
received in respect of the flats situate in Katherine Road, and
certificates were granted in all instances.
Street Noises.
Representations were made to the Council as to the
inconvenience and annoyance occasioned by hawkers and
others shouting in the streets.
The Health Committee drew attention to the following
bye-law made by the Middlesex County Council on the 28th
June, 1906, which was in force in the district.
"No person shall, for the purpose of hawking, selling,
or advertising any newspaper, or goods, or for the
purpose of purchasing, collecting or exchanging
rags, bones, old clothes, bottles, and similar articles,
call or shout in any street so as to cause annoyance
to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.