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previous to its usage. The cost for disinfection in each case
is about 2/3 per room.
The Police Court was attended and evidence given in
reference to putrid rabbits seized in Falcon Lane, conviction
being obtained and fine imposed. Also in reference to a quantity
of pork taken from a cart being driven fro n a slaughter-house
in York Roa 1, the meat was ordered to be destroyed, and it
was only by the technical objection raised that it was not in
the slaughter-house when Seized, that the owner escaped
i nprisonment. Too much praise cannot be accorded to Mr.
Richards for the manner he acted in this case and the
firmness exhibited under most trying circumstances. I
may also state I have had frequent occasions to require the
assistance of Mr. Richards at most unseasonable hours and
also on Sundays, and that assistance is always given most
willingly and cheerfully.
Cow and Slaughter-houses were all inspected and the
licences renewed, with the exception of Mr. Curtis at Broomwood,
who has hince desisted from cow-keeping at that
place.
Bakehouses are under periodical suspervision, and their
condition bears very favorable contrasts to what it was two
years ago ; in fact they may be said to be in a first class
sanitary condition.
Frequent complaints were made of the offensive effluvia
emanating from the sewer in Lombard Road; the temperature
of such sewer was found to-abnormally high, as much as
120° F., and the cause of such heat was proved to be very hot
water discharged into it from Messrs. Whiffins Chemical Factory;
frequent] observations were made, the results of which
will be in the recollection of the Board, as a consequence firm
action was taken, the effluent hot water was cooled and no complaints
have since been made, a terrible nuisance being got rid
of. The same course was taken in reference to other factories.