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and the Board think that the Council should direct those of their
Officers who are employed as Meat Inspectors to act in accordance
with the principles thus laid down.
The Board may at the same time draw attention to Article 19 (7)
of their General Order of the 23rd March, 1891, with respect to the
duties of an Inspector of Nuisances in relation to the inspection and
seizure of meat. They may point out that where an Inspector of
Nuisances is appointed under that Order, or under any Order superseded
by that Order, he is required by the Article, in any case of
doubt arising under it, to report the matter to the Medical Officer of
Health with the view of obtaining his advice thereon. The Board
think it desirable that any such Inspector of Nuisances should be
reminded of this provision.
Offensive Trades.—On 25th January, Police Court proceedings
were taken against Messrs. Harrison, Barber & Co.,
Horse Slaughterers and Manure Manufacturers, in consequence
of their factory creating a nuisance. The initial proceedings
had been taken in the previous July, and were adjourned
in order that the Company might adopt measures to abate
the nuisance. At the hearing it transpired that considerable
works had been in progress, and on the defendants giving an
undertaking to complete such works to the satisfaction of the
Medical Officer of Health and to pay 25 guineas costs, the prosecution
was withdrawn.
Other proceedings in respect to offensive trades will be found
in the list of prosecutions at the end of this report.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts. -During the year the
whole of the 12 Inspectors were employed in turn in taking
samples for analysis.
I give below the results. In one case only was there an appeal
to Quarter Sessions from the Magistrate's decision, in which case a
Licensed Victualler alleged as his defence the exhibition of a
"notice to customers" in the bar, a well-known notice such as is