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The total number of inspections of wharves, factories and shops where food stuffs are
stored or made, was 2,942 during the year 1904.
Register of places where Food is Prepared for Sale.
The following table gives the number and kind of the various places where food is
prepared (exclusive of the warehouses and wharves on the riverside) at present on our register.
A special register was started towards the end of 1903 for such places, and a considerable
number were added during 1904.
Butchers 10
Pork butchers 4
Picklers 2
Confectioners (wholesale) 2
Restaurants 9
Coffee and eating houses 93
Tinned provision merchants 4
Eel pie shops 6
Tea rooms 2
Fried fish shops 22
Pish shops 10
Various 9
Fish curers 7
Total 185
Ham and beef shops 3
Oyster rooms 2
Unsound Food Seizures.
The following are particulars of unsound food seized during the year 1904: —
20th March
4 tins unwholesome salmon
Fined £5 and 5s. costs
19th
48 tins bloater paste
„ £5 and 5s. „
4th July
84 sacks gooseberries
„ £5 and £1 11s. 10d. costs
„ £5 and £1 costs
56 half sieves red currants
*Dismissed
19th
Fined £1 10s. and 5s. costs
14th „
2 baskets of black currants
14th Aug.
5 pigs' heads, 4 half pigs' heads,
Committed to prison for three months
1 piece of bacon
3 trunks of fish
„ „ 28 days
25th Oct.
7th Dec.
13 pairs soles
„ „ „
* Magistrate held that the goods were sold subject to sorting.
Food Destroyed.
The following articles were brought to the notice of the Department, found to be unfit
for human food, and destroyed as trade refuse: —
12,478 tins various tinned foods
336 lbs. of meat
25 cwt. „ „
1,168 boxes (about) of tomatoes
29 cases ,, ,,
2 cwt. „ „
3½ barrels of fish
601 bags of carrots
3 boxes ,,
3 cases of eggs
1 case ,,
3¼ cwt. of liquid eggs
3 trunks ,,
19 cwt. of cheese
6 cwt. 1 qr. 14 lbs. of fish
7 bags of Brussels sprouts
484 bags of potatoes
36½ pipes of orange peel
76 tons 2 qrs. 11 lbs. potatoes
278 half sieves of fruit
910 bags of onions
1 case of oranges
70 crates of bananas
15 casks of apples
22 cases ,,
5 cases of pears
Bacteriological Laboratory.
The total number of specimens examined was 432, against 485 in 1903. The most
noticeable thing is the decrease in the diphtheria swabs, but this is due largely to the comparative
freedom of the Borough from suspicious throats in 1904.
The number of specimens of tubercle is steadily increasing and was 172, compared with
134 in 1903 and 67 in 1902
Nature of Specimen.
Number
Examined.
Result of Examination.
Positive
Result.
Negative
Result.
Diphtheria (specimens taken by the
Medical Officer of Health)
Ditto (taken by private practitioners)
149
91
11
20
138
71
Diphtheria (total specimens taken)
Tubercle
Enteric
Various
240
172
17
3
31
69
6
1
209
103
11
2
Total Specimens taken
432
107
325