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tions on the part of the Sanitary Staff to trace and put down such practices.
This resulted in the seizure, on the 15th of August, of 46
quarters of beef and 4 calves at the slaughterhouse of Mr. Charles Geary,
Essex Street, Cambridge Road. The meat was destroyed, and the
defendant fined £10 and costs. On the 31st August a further seizure
was made, at the same premises, of a cow that had died, and was in
process of being dressed for market. This was also destroyed, and the
defendant fined £2 and costs.
slaughter -houses.
These have been visited, and where required cleansed and otherwise
placed in a satisfactory condition.
sanitary miscellanea.
Mr. Christie, the Chief Sanitary Inspector, reports for the year to
the following effect:—
"2,018 Houses have been inspected, and 649 Notices served upon owners, requiring
them to make Sanitary Improvements.
"7,933 Visits have been made for the purpose of seeing that the work required was
done in a proper manner. In 71 cases owners have been summoned before the Magistrate
at Worship Street Police Court, for neglect to comply with the requirements of the
Notices served on them. The Inspectors have attended at the Police Court, with the
Medical Officer of Health, 95 times, on the hearing of Summonses. In each case the
Magistrate ordered the requirements of the Notice to be complied with within a given
time.
"955 Houses have been cleansed and purified; 448 Cesspools filled up and done
away with; the defective Drainage of 731 Houses remedied; in 125 cases dirty Closets
have been cleansed, and defects of Privy accommodation sullied; 12 Underground
Dwellings have been cleared and closed; the Overcrowding in 23 dwellings abated;
18 Animals (horses) kept in dwellings have been removed; 22 foul Urinals cleansed or
removed; 274 Pigs removed; and in 12 cases accumulations of muck and dung in yards
have been carried away.
"Tripe Boiling.—The nuisance in Green Street, complained of by several inhabitants,
has been abated by having a shaft erected above the houses adjoining, and by
having coppers with close-covered lids, so that the effluvia should pass through the
furnace.
"Blood Boiling.—A person resident at 72, Gosset Street was summoned before a
Magistrate at Worship Street, and ordered to abate the nuisance in 14 days, and
to pay costs.
"Unwholesome Food.—About 12 lbs. of Pork, part of a diseased pig, which were
in preparation for sausages for the food of man, have been seized on the premises of a
Mr. Turner, sausage maker, and condemned by the Police Magistrate, and ordered to be
destroyed. Mr. Turner was summoned, and ordered to pay a penalty of £5 and costs.