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Annual Report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
for the Year 1905.
To D. J. Thomas, Esq., m.r.c.s., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
SIR,—I herewith present my sixth annual statement,
showing the particulars of the action taken in the suppression of
nuisances, &c., and various improvements effected by this
department during the year 1905.
NOTICES.
Nine hundred and ninety-eight Preliminary Notices and
657 Statutory Notices have been served for the abatement of
nuisances, and the necessary works asked for were carried out
in nearly all cases; police-court proceedings only being necessary
in six instances to enforce compliance.
DRAINAGE EXAMINATIONS.
The smoke test has been applied 36 times, and in addition
99 drains were opened up for examination, after formal written
complaints had been made and authority given for that purpose.
The volatile or chemical test has also been applied to drains in
numerous instances.
INSPECTION OF MEAT AND OTHER FOODS.
The various butchers' shops, greengrocers' shops, and other
places where food is sold or prepared, were frequently inspected
during the year, and in very few cases did I find any unsound
food, or was it necessary for me to call the occupiers' attention
to any insanitary conditions or want of cleanliness.
On several occasions I found, upon cutting into the
pharyngeal glands of pigs in the butchers' shops, that they were
affected with Tuberculosis, and upon pointing this out to the
butchers they readily surrendered the pigs' heads to me.