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Unsound Food—Shops and Stalls.
The shops and stalls in the district have been regularly visited
with a view to detecting unsound and unwholesome food, and in
a few instances parcels of fish, meat and fruit, on being examined,
were found to be unfit for human consumption and destroyed.
In each case the vendor was severely cautioned.
On the 21st March I was called to a fishmonger's shop in High
Street and requested to examine the contents of two cases of fish
"meagrams," which were found to be totally unfit for food. They
were destroyed by the owner, and a certificate given as to their
condition.
On the 27th March two kits of skate were brought to the office,
and found to be in a putrid condition. A certificate to that effect
was given, and the fish destroyed by the owner.
Cards re Prevention of Consumption.
By your instruction these cards have been distributed throughout
the district, in workshops, workplaces, public urinals, etc
Verminous Persons,
Circulars respecting personal cleansing of verminous persons
have been distributed throughout the district among the common
lodging houses and seamen's lodging houses.
Hair Dressers' Shops.
The whole of the hair dressers' shops in the district have been
inspected, particularly with respect to cleanliness of the materials
used in the business, and also of the premises. In almost every
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