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Protection of the Food Supply.
During the year 1907 the protection of the food supply has
occupied the attention of the Health Department to a considerable
extent. The work has comprised meat inspection and
seizure, registration and systematic inspection of the milk shops,
dairies and cowsheds, and the administration of the Sale of
Food and Drugs Acts. A good deal of time has also been
devoted to the sanitation of bakehouses (vide section dealing
with the administration of the Factory and Workshops Act)
and to premises wherein food is prepared as potted meat, and
for sausage manufacture. Other premises in which the sale and
preparation of food in various ways is carried on have claimed
the attention of the Department, such as ice-cream shops, milk
shops, butcher shops, restaurant kitchens, &c. ; all of these
premises being frequently and systematically inspected by the
Council's officers.
Unsound Food.

Proceedings were taken in all cases, and in one case the
summons was dismissed. In the remainder fines and costs
amounting to £21 16s. were imposed.
The case which was dismissed referred to the seizure by
the Medical Officer of Health of the carcase of an ox in an
advanced stage of generalised tuberculosis, in a private
slaughterhouse in York Road. The case, which was decided on
a point of law, was heard at the South-Western Police Court,
on the 30th January, before Mr. Paul Taylor. The learned