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Under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, seven cases were withdrawn for
the following reasons :—
1 Refusal to serve Inspector—article proved to have already been
sold.
4 Analyst's certificates not being in accordance with the decision of
Fortune v. Hanson.
1 A second defendant had already been convicted for the same
offence.
1 Defendant dead.
Total 7
And in two instances the summonses were dismissed, one on account of
the article being duly labelled, and the other owing to conflicting evidence, the
defendant being afforded the benefit of the doubt.
The case withdrawn under the Public Health Act was due to the fact
that the defendant gave a wrong address, and could not be traced.
In the case of exposure of bacon in a condition unfit for human food, the
defendant, in default of payment of a fine of £20, was committed to prison for
two months.
Two hundred and ninety-three bodies were received in the
Public Mortuary during the year 1896, seventeen of which were
for sanitary reasons.
A prominent feature in the work of the Public Health Department
is the largely increased number of special inspect ions made by
the Chief Sanitary Inspector and the District Sanitary Inspectors
the results of which are reported to the Health Committee at
the next subsequent meeting. In order to facilitate reference to
the minutes if necessary the dates upon which such reports have
been made during the year 1896 are appended.
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