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Coffee and Eating Houses.
These premises have been periodically inspected during the year ;
alterations in tenancy and new shops opened have been registered, and
the register brought up to date.
While inspecting these places, so far as possible attention has been
paid to the food.
The premises have been cleansed when found necessary.
Food Inspection at Wharves, etc.
At Aberdeen WTiarf, where food of different kinds is landed for transit,
inspections have been made from time to time, and everything found in
first-class condition. The food nearly all comes from Scotland.
The butchers' premises and stalls in Chrisp Street Market were
inspected at night times and at week-ends, and once at least every
day.
In each place where sausages and brawn are made, special attention
has been given. These premises are registered, and the businesses are
conducted in a clean and proper manner, and the premises are regularly
cleansed.
Odd consignments of damaged wheat, rice and barley, etc., have
been received into the district from the docks to be made up into poultry
food.
These consignments have been inspected throughout the process.
Odd lots of condemned foodstuffs have been dealt with and destroyed
in the Council's destructor.
Two hundred and forty barrels of pickled herrings, which were
deposited in the district for sale, some of which were unsound, have
been dealt with.
Factories and Workshops.
These places have been visited periodically, and where necessary
cleansing "Notices" have been served and complied with. New workshops
opened have been placed on the register and duly inspected.
No case of overcrowding or infectious disease had been found to
exist, but some cases of infectious diseases, notified as residing in the
district, were dealt with by notifying the authorities in whose districts
they worked.