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CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS.
Under this act, 177 applications were made to me for certificates of the
sanitary fitness of dwellings, whereby an abatement of the inhabited house
duty might be obtained, in 87 instances certificates were granted.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1875.
Under the above act, 119 samples were taken by Inspector Quelch duriDg
the year. Of these, 99 were milk, 16 butter, and 4 coffee. In 24, analysis
shewed that adulteration had taken place and legal proceedings were instituted.
In 23, prosecutions followed. Of these, 22 were for adulterating milk, and one
for adulteration of coffee One case was dismissed. Fines were inflicted
amounting to £94 5s. 6d., and costs allowed amounting to £2.
There was one prosecution under the "Margarine Act, 1887," the fine
inflicted and costs allowed amounting to £1 4s.
The reports of the Analyst, Dr. Stevenson, for the year 1893, containing
the details of the work done during the year by the department under the Act,
are appended.
FOOD CONDEMNED AND DESTROYED.
The street markets have been kept under surpervision by your Inspectors,
and special steps taken to prevent vegetable and animal refuse being thrown on
the roadways. The following articles have been seized and destroyed during
the year as unfit for human food:—
Cheeses 8 (96 lbs.) Whelks 2 cwt.
Onions 1 box Fowls 57
Bananas ½bush. Ducks 2
Currants (black) 30 lbs. Rabbits 222
Plums 10 ,, Kidneys 213
Cherries 294 ,, Pork (cuttings) 5 lbs.
Greengages 104 ,, „ (pickled) 4 ,,
Tomatoes 1½ bush. Veal 3 hind quarters and 54 ,,
Fish Roes 3 boxes Mutton 17 legs, 10 pieces, 2 hind
Skate 1 cwt. quarters and 6 breasts
Mussels 2 bags Beef 24 lbs.
Hake 1½ cwt. „ (cuttings) 16 „
Soles 42 pairs Beef & Mutton (cuttings) 15 „
Oysters part of barrel & 3 boxes Pigs head 1
Mackerel 11