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stalls and shops where food is exposed for sale, in order to
detect any unsound food which may be disposed of.
The Inspector attends each Market, viz., Wednesday and
Saturday, and examines the food and provisions exposed for
sale, and during the year nothing liable to seizure has been
exposed for sale.
He is also in attendance during the holding of the Cattle
Market, for the purpose of enforcing the Bye-laws with respect
to the over-stocking of milch cows, and has on numerous occasions
compelled the owners of cattle to cause their cows to
be milked to relieve undue or painful distension of the udder.
The gipsy encampments, especially on unoccupied land on
the Mawneys Estate, take up a good deal of the Inspector's,
time; it is difficult to know what to do to abate this, which
is a serious nuisance, complained of by the permanent residents
near. The practice is to serve notice on the dwellers in these
vans to provide proper sanitary accommodation, and the effect
of this is to cause them to decamp, but others come in their
place, and are served in the same way.
In cases of suspected but indefinite Diphtheria, swabs from
suspected throats have been sent to me by the Medical Attendant,
and bacteriological examination of the culture from the
swab made at the Isolation Hospital laboratory is made by
me, and the result reported to the Medical Attendant of the
Patient.
The above record of enquiries and action in the case of
condition injurious to the public health does not include the
many minor instances of intervention on the part of the Sanitary
Inspector, a record of which is shown in the Inspector's
report to the County Council required by the Local Government
Board to be attached to this Report.
The main public sanitary improvements effected in the
district during the year have been as follows:—
Extension of the South Essex Co.'s water main in the
following roads:—Crossway, Balgores Crescent, Cross Road,
Forest Road, and Hare Hall Lane.
Road improvements (widening, &c.) have been carried
out in Station Road, Squirrels Heath, and Balgores Lane, south