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In 4,093 cases, smaller matters, repairs to premises,
defective ventilation, and other detail work, were
attended to.
These figures total to the comparatively large
amount of 13,553, and prove, first, what a large amount
of detail work is carried out in the six districts and
moreover shows conclusively how necessary it is that
constant and repeated inspection should take place in
a Borough of this description.
Under the provisions of the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, 646 samples of food were officially taken.
Of these 62 were sold contrary to the law or under
some mis-description and about 9 per cent. were found
to be adulterated.
The particulars relating to adulterated food are
interesting from the fact that some years since, prior
to what may be termed sanitary activity, the percentage
of adulterated food was 33 per cent. The steady persistent
workingof these Acts, technical and unsatisfactory
though they be, has gradually reduced adulterated foods
offered for sale in the different markets, in, say, about
15 years from 33 per cent. to 9 per cent.
In addition to samples taken officially under the
Act, we have for the purpose of information, a system
of having purchases made at various shops of all kinds
of articles, and these are analysed with a view to
ascertaining the quality and nature of the goods sold
at the different establishments. During the past 12
months, 94 such samples were purchased and submitted