View report page

168
sale, and selling to a customer, meat which, by reason of
putrefactive change, had become unwholesome and unfit for
food of man. The defendant having pleaded guilty to the
charge, and it appearing to be not an aggravated case, a
nominal fine, ten shillings and costs, was inflicted. The
prosecution will, I hope, have good effect, if only by bringing
it home to butchers that the fact of meat being offered for
sale, and sold, at an extremely low price (in this case threepence
per pound), cannot be pleaded in extenuation of the
offence for which the butcher in question was punished.
Exposure of the Infectious Sick in public places,
a too common practice, has already received some notice at
page 46. In several cases during the past year the exposure
was in public vehicles, persons suffering from diphtheria and
scarlet fever having, under a variety of circumstances, been
removed to hospital, 01* from place to place, in cabs, the numbers
of which were unknown, so that the vehicles could not
be disinfected, and the subsequent hirers of them undoubtedly
were exposed to serious danger. It was not possible to prove
that in any of the cases the offending parties had guilty
knowledge of the offence they were committing, and no proceedings
were taken in this parish. In one case, however,
proceedings were taken at a seaside town in respect of an
offence which was committed there, and repeated in this
parish, a sick child having been conveyed in public vehicles
both before and at the end of a railway journey.
Failure to Notify Infectious Disease.—A gross
case of exposure of children suffering from small pox formed
the subject of an inquiry at the police-court. The offender
lived in a house from which two cases of the disease had been
removed to hospital, in November and December respectively.
The house was visited several times by the Sanitary Inspector,
who was informed that no one was ill. In January, however,
he received an anonymous letter intimating that children