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"justify my taking such action. The owners evidently dispose
"of them at an earlier period than before the Order came into
"force, and this also applies to cases of affections of the udder.
"Where I find an animal sufficiently emaciated and showing sus"picious
symptoms of Tuberculosis, it is my duty, under the Order,
"to instruct the owner to give notice that it may be dealt with by
"me.
"The cows may be considered, generally, as being in a healthy
"condition, and satisfactorilv cared for."

There were nine prosecutions resulting in a conviction in each
case.
This statement shows the necessity and importance of a sufficient
staff of Inspectors to cope with the fraudulent dealers in milk and
other articles of diet, for unfortunately it is the poor people and little
children who suffer most by these adulterations.
The sophistication of milk is not only an offence against the
laws of the Realm, but—what is far worse—it is a deadly menace
to the health of poor little children who are expected to live and
thrive on it, and in my opinion any one found guilty of such an
offence deserves and should receive condign punishment.
If a beer dealer is convicted of adding a few gallons of water to
a barrel of beer—whereby he does no injury to the health of any
of his customers, rather, perhaps, the reverse—he is heavily fined,
the fine often running into many pounds. A milk dealer, on the
other hand, whose diluted and adulterated milk may hasten the
death of any number of delicate children, may under similar circumstances
escape with a fine of a few shillings.
OTHER FOODS.
Mr. Fred Wilson and Mr. T. M. Boswell, the Assistant Sanitary
Inspectors, who hold the Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute
for Inspector of Meat and Foods, visit the slaughterhouses, of which
there are 18 in the District, every week, and as will be seen by a
reference to the Sanitary Inspector's Report, they paid 819 such