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case has it been necessary to serve notices. There has not come under my notice
any cases of infectious disease or other illness, and all the requirements of the
Acts have been fairly well observed.
I am, Sir, yours obediently,
J. Osborne,
Canal Boats Inspector.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I beg to submit my report for 1909. During the year I procured
100 samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, and made 835 visits to
the market streets. I made 294 inspections of slaughter-houses, ice cream
places, cowsheds and milkshops. During my visits to the slaughter-houses
I saw 160 sheep, 14 bullocks and 9 lambs killed and dressed, and inspected
88 carcases of mutton, 13 of beef and 6 of lamb. I had the following articles
of food destroyed as unfit for human consumption: —
4 cwt. of codfish.
2 boxes of oranges.
31 lbs. of cured haddocks.
6 tons 5 cwt. of carrots.
1 box of catfish.
14 lbs of dabs.
3 baskets of damsons.
4 boxes of dried raisins.
1 box of dried plums.
3 tins of chicken soup.
1 tin of mock turtle soup.
2 tins of oxtail soup.
1 tin of mackerel.
I made the usual periodical inspection of bakehouses, registered tenement
houses, workshops and factories ; where necessary notices were served for the
abatement of nuisances and breaches of Statutory By-Laws.
I am, yours obediently,
W. G. Auger,
Inspector of Food and Food Places
and District Inspector.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I beg to report on my work in the Northern and Eastern Divisions of the
Borough for the year ended December 31st, 1909, as Inspector of Food and
Food Places.
Markets.—I made 2,177 inspections of the various market places, including
butchers', pork butchers', fishmongers, and greengrocers' shops and stalls.