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64 Yards re-paved.
70 Dust-bins repaired and provided.
28 Accumulations of offensive refuse have been removed.
22 Bakehouses inspected and re-inspected.
2 Slaughterhouses inspected and re-inspected at various times, and
defects remedied.
1 Cow-shed ditto.
895 Dust complaints received attention.
There are 46 houses registered as " Houses let in lodgings."
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.
MEAT, UNSOUND FOOD, Etc.
In the course of the half year the Sanitary Inspectors have seized and
destroyed as unfit for human food, 31 bodies of beef, 4 sides of beef, 47
quarters of beef, 23 stone of beef, a large quantity of pieces of beef, a large
quantity of bullocks' offal, 18 sheep, 400 sheeps' heads, 850 sheeps' plucks,
1 lamb, 13 pigs, 14 barrels of pigs' kidneys and plucks, 1 barrel of salt pigs'
heads, 2 calves, 100 calves' plucks, 4 cases of calves' plucks, 5 quarters of
veal, 37 cases of rabbits, 370 pigeons.
Jeremiah Tipple, of Clenchwarton, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, was
prosecuted for depositing for the purpose of sale at Messrs. Barnard &
King, 92, Cowcross Street, on the 22nd November, 1895, four quarters of
beef, diseased, unsound, and unfit for the food of man. He was fined / 20
and 2s. costs, and in default was sent to prison for two months.
There have been a great many prosecutions this year, and there are many
others about to be prosecuted.
SMOKE INSPECTION.
The Smoke Inspector, Mr. Thomas Madden, reports that there are 56
furnaces and boilers on the register, and that he makes periodical inspection
of them to see that they are in proper working order, and consume their own
smoke. There are 9 kinds of smoke consumers in the district, which are
as follows:—