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Also a considerable amount of sanitary work has been done in the
district (such as new buildings, etc.) without notices being served, but
done under the supervision of the Inspectors.
UNSOUND FOOD, Etc.
Details of diseased and decomposed meat "seized" during the year
are given on pages 58 to 60.
In addition to this there were seized and destroyed as unfit for
human food.
638 cases of currants that had been sunk in the Thames near London
Bridge. They weighed in the sodden state about 10 tons.
20 ducks and 8 bushels of sprouts, 6 pieces of horseflesh, and 120 lbs.
tomatoes.
SMOKE INSPECTION.
The Smoke Inspector, Mr. Thomas Madden, reports that there are
59 furnaces and boilers on the register, and that he makes periodical
inspection of them to see that they are in a proper working order, and
consume their own smoke. There are 10 kinds of smoke consumers in
the district which are as follows:—
Ventilated Doors 8
Martin's Patent 5
Dr. Annan's Patent 4
Nicholson's „ 4
Caddy's „ Bars 2
Juke's „ 2
Galloway's „ 2
Hyde's „ Revolving Bars 2
Watt's „ 1
Gregory and Veal's Patent 1
Total of Smoke Consumers 31
The number of furnaces and boilers without smoke consumers is 28.
There has therefore been an increase of one smoke consumer (Gregory
and Veal's) during the year.
Three notices were served during the time reported on, all of which
have been complied with.
THE MORTUARY.
There were 157 bodies brought into the mortuary from 1st January
to December 31st, 1896.
Coroner's inquests were held on 51 of these.