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The Inspectors of Nuisances are also the officer appointed
to procure and submit for analysis samples of artcles
under the Act for preventing Adulteration of Food, Drink,
&c, and during the year they have taken 82 samples for
analysis by the Public Analyst. The result has been very
much the same as was reported last year, viz., that in the
great majority of instances the articles have been found to
be either unadulterated, or but so slightly adulterated as
neither to be injurious to health, or to involve any appreciable
fraud on the purchaser, for, in 15 cases only was
adulteration proved.

The greatly increased expenditure thus shown to have
been made during the year,included sums amounting to
£8100, paid in discharge of temporary loans,there by reducing
the actual expenditure for the year from £72,070 to £63,970.