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district, in accordance with and on the days mentioned in the regulations
for that purpose once in every week at the least.
Since the appointment of this additional foreman there has been a
great reduction in the number of notices received for the removal of
house refuse.
A daily collection of house refuse in the Italian colony has been
carried out since June last year. It now works very satisfactorily.
The sanitary pails were provided at the expense of the owners (a
Building Society).
It is desirable that all the old large house dust-bins, and public dustbins
in courts and alleys, which are a constant source of nuisance, should
be demolished, and replaced by sanitary galvanized-iron dust-pails.
These can easily be moved and at once emptied by the dustmen, with
much less labour and nuisance to the occupiers and neighbours. Many
such bins have been demolished during the year.
THE MEAT MARKET.
The necessity for the appointment of a special Meat Inspector, so
that there could be more constant and efficient inspection of the Meat
Market, has been fully demonstrated. A large amount of diseased and
unsound meat was seized, especially during the first quarter of the year.
During the year 1896, there were 258 "seizures" of disease// meat,
excluding unsound and decomposed meat, and diseased, unsound, and
decomposed " offal."

I give the figures also for the fist quarter of this year, so that the
very marked change effected in the state of the Meat Market can be