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Among the 73 premises concerned, 95 rooms and 48 loads of bedding
were disinfected during the year, and various articles were destroyed
on request; no complaint as to injury to bedding was received.
The wards, rooms and bedding of the diphtheria block at the hospital
were also disinfected in the anticipation of receiving wounded soldiers.
Disinfection is carried out by the following means :—
1. Formalin gas (Alformant lamp).
2. Formalin spray,
3. Bedding, etc., is disinfected in the Council's steam
disinfecting chamber,
FOOD INSPECTION.
The number of premises within the district concerned with the sale
of food is about forty, and these are inspected with more or less frequency
as occasion demands. There are two slaughter-houses, both large and wellconstructed
premises, provided with excellent lairage accommodation for
cattle.
The occupiers of the latter hold licenses subject to annual renewal,
and business has been well conducted at both premises.
As far as possible all carcases are inspected during process of
slaughter—the only opportunity for complete examination.
Much of the meat consumed in the district is obtained from the
London markets; local killed meat, however, is usually of prime quality,
and of the 350 carcases examined, disease of any importance was rarely
detected.
The following articles were condemned and destroyed
2 ox lungs Tuberculosis.
1 ox liver and mesentery ,,
1 ox lung Echinococcus cysts (parasitic)
1 lamb's leg Gangrene.
also one trunk of whiting, and a quantity of stale fat from fish fryers'
pans.
The only fish frying business carried on in the district, was for a
short time conducted under exceedingly filthy conditions and attracted
pests of flies.