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Food Inspection.
During the year special attention was paid to the inspection
of meat, fish, and other food stuffs exposed for sale.
The following articles were destroyed at the request of the
owners :—
159 Rabbits.
5 Crates of Pears.
2 Boxes of Roes.
Factory and Workshop Acts.
The number of Workshops and Workplaces, including Bakehouses,
now on the Register is 84. All have been periodically
inspected, and, as a rule, the general conditions of the Act are
well observed.
Three notices were received from H.M. Inspector of Factories
as to defective closet accommodation and overcrowding in a
workroom.
Outworkers.
Lists of outworkers residing in this district have been received
in 43 instances from other authorities. A record is kept of their
addresses, these lists are referred to upon receipt of a notification
of infectious disease, in order to stop any work being sent to
an infected house. One case of Diphtheria occurred in the house
of an outworker, full precautions were taken against the spread
of the disease.
The names and addresses of nine outworkers living outside
the district have been forwarded to the authorities of the district
in which they reside.