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1,137 notices to abate nuisances have been served by the Inspectors
during the year; 867 of which were primary, and 270 final.
It has been necessary in 32 cases to enforce compliance with notices by
Police Court proceedings.
The market places are frequently visited, and 120 seizures were made
during the year of stale and unsound fish, fruit, vegetables, and other
articles of food exposed for sale, amongst which may be enumerated:—
14 pads, 14½ kits, 2 turns, 1 box, 2 trunks, 2 baskets, and 40 loose
plaice.
53 boxes, 1 basket, 4 pads, 4 barrels, 2 kits of herrings.
3 boxes, 16 pads, and 13 loose mackerel.
1 barrel of guard fish.
1 trunk, 1 pad, and 1 barrel of haddocks.
41 pairs and 1 trunk of soles.
2 baskets and 3 bushels of sprats.
2 pads and 1 box of mixed fish.
1 pad of whitings.
2 baskets, 1 pad, 2 flats, and 4 bushels of shrimps.
10 lobsters.
3 barrels, 4 pottles, 6 kits, and 45 loose crabs.
1 sack of periwinkles.
6½ bushels and 1 gallon of whelks.
15 dozens of brocoli.
2 crates of cauliflowers.
15 sacks and 6 bushels of onions.
3 lbs. of pork, 67 fowls, 77 ducks, 37 rabbits.
1 bushel, 2 parcels, and a quantity of cherries.
A quantity of oranges, 1 bushel of white currants, 52 sieves of black
currants, and 1 basket of strawberries.
Many nuisances, besides those classified above, have been abated. The
"Workshop Regulation Act" has been enforced; all licensed cowsheds and
slaughter-houses have been regularly inspected; and the inspection of
houses visited by fever, scarlet fever, small pox, diphtheria, and fatal forms
of diarrhœa, has been carried out, and their disinfection enjoined upon
the inmates.
REPORT ON THE SUPPLY OF GAS.
The averaging illuminating power of the gas supplied by the Imperial
Gas Light and Coke Company was, as tested according to the "Metropolis
Gas Act, 1860," 14.5 standard sperm candles. The highest illuminating
power observed was 16.9, and the lowest 13.1 candles. If the testings were
made according to the Imperial Company's New Act, the numbers would be
increased by about one-sixth without any real increase in the illuminating
power, and thus the illuminating power would be observed always to keep
above the statutory minimum.