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A practice has been adopted that when retail vendors become
aware that articles of food purchased of wholesale dealers are
unsound and unfit for human consumption, they attend with the
same at the Public Health Offices, and if satisfied that no attempt
has been made to sell the articles, they are condemned by the
Vestry's Officers, and cremated at the Dust Destructor, and a
certificate is given in support of any claim upon the wholesale
firm who originally sold the same. This no doubt prevents a
large amount of unsound food being offered for sale.
The whole of the butchers, fishmongers, fruiterers, and other
tradesmen's premises have been kept under close and frequent
supervision both on week days and Sundays, and in no case
has it been found necessary to effect a seizure of any article of
food.
Bakehouses
The half-yearly inspection of bakehouses was
carried out in May and September.
At the May inspection there were 108 in active use, and
with seventeen exceptions the cleansing and lime-washing had
been carried out, in which cases intimations were served, followed
in two instances by statutory notices by order of the Health
Committee, which were subsequently complied with.
At the September inspection it was found necessary to serve
fourteen notices, which were duly complied with. At that time
the bakehouses in occupation numbered 104.
Cowhouses
and
Slaughterhouses.
In October last, a Sub-Committee of the Health
Committee visited the whole of the Cow-houses
and Slaughter-houses in the Parish for which
applications had been made for the renewal of licenses.
There were 18 such applications, of which 8 were in respect
of cow-houses, and 10 for slaughter-houses, in respect of one
existing cow-house, application was not made, and the license
consequently lapsed.