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(2) any room which is used as a sleeping-room
or any room which is occupied by a person
suffering from an infectious disease, or which,
having been so occupied, has not been subsequently
properly disinfected ; or
(3) in any room or part of a building in which
there is any direct inlet to a drain which is
not efficiently trapped.
Provided that the foregoing provisions shall not
be deemed to prohibit the deposit or keeping of
milk intended for use in the manufacture of butter,
cream or cheese in a room used as a kitchen.
(2) Vessels containing milk shall be properly covered or
the milk shall be otherwise effectively protected from
dust, dirt, flies or other sources of contamination ;
(3) No foul or noxious matter or soiled bed or body
clothing shall be conveyed through any part of a building
used for the keeping or storage of milk.
Meat.—During the year it was not found necessary to
seize any animal or meat exposed for sale, or deposited in anv
place for the purpose of sale, or preparation for sale.
The following were voluntarily surrendered and destroyed:
—2 Forequarters Beef. Fat and Offal. (5 cwts. 1 qr. 11 lbs).
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, which
came inito force on the 1st April, 1925. provide for the better
regulation and supervision of slaughter-houses and protection
of meat against contamination by dirt, etc.
There are 109 premises where meat, bacon, etc., are either
stored or exposed for sale. In order that the chief points
enumerated in the above Regulations might be continually brought
to the notice of those handling meat a notice, copy of which
is set out hereunder, was sent to all shopkeepers coming within
the provisions of the Regulations, with a request that the same
be exhibited in a prominent place. As a result it was generally
found that the proprietors of such premises had complied reasonably
with the Regulations and in only one case was it necessary
to call the attention of a firm for failure to notify the Department
as to the time of slaughter.