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condition. Notices were served in each of these cases
calling upon the bakers to comply with the regulations.
In each instance the notice was at once complied with.
SEIZURE OF UNWHOLESOME FOOD.
No articles of food were found to be in such a state as
to be unfit for the food of man so as to justify seizure
under 54 & 55 Vic., chap. 76, sec. 47. The heavy
penalties obtained some years ago have no doubt had a
salutary effect in preventing food being offered for sale
in such a state to justify seizure.
SANITARY NOTICES AND ADMINISTRATION.
During last year 2,997 notices were reported as having
been served by your Sanitary Inspectors, having for their
object the removal or prevention of nuisances or insanitary
conditions, and during the same period 2,836
notices were reported as having been complied with.
Your Vestry has, I have much pleasure in recording,
at last decided to appoint a Special Sanitary Inspector
for house to house inspection of the Parish. You are
aware that I am of opinion that every house in the
Parish ought to be examined as to its sanitary condition
at least once a year. With one House to House
Inspector it will take about 4 years to inspect the Parish.
The appointment of one House to House Inspector does
not therefore in my opinion do all that is desirable, but it
is certainly a step in the right direction.
SUMMONSES ORDERED.
During last year your Vestry and the Sanitary Committee
ordered 114 summonses against persons for having
failed to comply with the requirements of your Vestry or
the Sanitary Committee. Before any of the summonses
were taken out a letter was written to the person in
default, informing him that the Vestry or the Sanitary
Committee had ordered the summons, and asking him if
he were willing to give an undertaking in writing that