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FOOD TRADES INSPECTION.
Under this heading are included bakehouses,
slaughter-houses, cowsheds, dairies, butchers' shops,
fish shops, and stalls where food is prepared and sold.
These premises have been regularly visited and various
defects, from time to time found, have been remedied.
There are 26 bakehouses, seven of these being underground,
for which certificates were granted in 1903.
Two underground bakehouses are not now used. All
the bakehouses have been cleansed twice during the year
in accordance with the Factory and Workshop Act.
The number of slaughter-houses is the same as in
the previous year, namely three; the cleansing took
place in March, June, September and December, as
provided for in the Bye-laws.
Three persons are registered as cow-keepers and 25
as purveyors of milk. Seven additional purveyors of
milk have been registered during the year. The limewashing
of the cowsheds has been carried out twice
during the year, in accordance with the regulations.
UNSOUND FOOD.
The practice still continues of tradesmen bringing
for inspection suspicious articles of food. Amongst a
great variety of food so brought were rabbits, two dozen
baskets of raspberries, trunks of hake and gurnet, &c.
Hitherto it has been the practice of the wholesale dealers to
allow the tradesmen the money paid for such food on
production of a letter that the food has been destroyed by
the Sanitary Authority, but recently the Fishmongers' Company,
Billingsgate Market, have objected to do this,consequently
there maybe a tendency on the part of some dealers
to sell fish which ought not to be consumed. A greater
vigilance will therefore have to be kept upon those shops
where the fish is cut up in pieces and fried. About a