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markets and slaughter-houses were amended by the Board; and a new handbook of the Public Health laws, regulations and byelaws was compiled.
5. The total number of permits issued to remove bodies out of the Colony in 1909 was 538. The total number of bodies exhumed under exhumation permits issued by this Department was 129. Of these 108 were removed from the Colony and 21 re-buried within the Colony.
6. The report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon deals in full with markets, slaughter-houses and cattle depôts, also with cattle disease. It shows an increase in the revenue derived from slaughter-houses of $5,656.00* and of $1,561.08 from the markets. The number of animals slaughtered is roughly the same as in 1908.
7. The total revenue collected during the year including that derived from undertakers' licences, market licences, and market stalls collected by the Registrar General during the first six months of the year amounted in all to $203,070.76. The estimated revenue for the year was $226,780.00. The total expenditure during the year was $352,826.64 compared with $376,736.14 in 1908. The estimated expenditure in 1909 was $408,882.00.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Head of the Sanitary Department.
31st March, 1910.
*The sum of $166 of this amount although collected during 1909 was not paid into the Treasury until the early days in 1910 and these figures do not therefore correspond with the Treasury returns of revenue, but show the exact particulars of the fees collected.