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During the house to house inspection hut two cases
of overcrowding were found. Notices to abate were
readily complied with.
Pig complaints have not been so numerous as in
former year. Four piggeries have been removed.
There is no doubt that with the large increase in
the number of houses and population, that pigs cannot
be kept without being a nuisance, and it is impossible to
say to what extent, by their emanations vitiating the
atmosphere, they may lower the vitality of the people.
A quantity of meat was seized on the premises of a
butcher in Winstanly Road, and was being used in
the process of sausage-making. It had been put into
strong brine, but was in such an advanced stage of
decomposition that it would not take the salt. Proceedings
were taken before the Magistrate who marked
his sense of the gravity of the case by inflicting a penalty
of £15. Nothing that can be said to condemn the
practice of using putrid meat in the making of sausages
is too strong, and especially in a neighbourhood such as
that of Winstanly Road, where the majority of the people
are of the poorer class, and no doubt tempted by
a lower price eat largely of these mysterious combinations,
and consequently suffer the evil effects of such
unwholesome matter.
The Police Court was attended in reference to
continued nuisance on land owned by Mr. Barber, in
High Street, an order for its abatement was obtained,
and a subsequent fine of £5 inflicted for wilfully
disobeying it.
The cow and slaughterhouses were all inspected.
Objection was made to premises in Usk Road, and the