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DUSTBINS.
Sixty-one dustbins were provided as a result of
6 statutory and 55 informal notices served.
The Council's scheme for the sale of new dustbins
was continued, fifty bins being sold during the year.
The ambiguity of the Public Health Act which
provides that the local authority may require either
the owner or occupier of any building to provide a
dustbin still gives rise to difficulties necessitating
a judicial decision by the Council in all disputed cases.
None of the six cases so decided by the Council was
the subject of appeal to the Magistrates.
MOVEABLE DWELLINGS.
Forty-four licences to station and use moveable
dwellings (caravans) were granted during the year.
Twenty-four of the caravans are standing on the Riverhill
Estate which has been leased to a local Sports Club. The
remainder are stationed on odd sites throughout the Borough.
There is one site on which some unlicensed caravans are
parked which is to be dealt with by the Council acquiring the
land with a view to development.

Disinfection was also carried out at thirty premises
on request, the occupier in each case paying the cost.
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