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STREET MARKETS AND POOD.
The usual supervision was exercised by the sanitary officers over the street
markets and the food exposed for sale. Frequent examinations were made with a
view to the detection of unsound food. With few exceptions the quality of the various
foods exposed for sale was excellent.
The following articles of food were destroyed during the year as being unfit for
the use of man:—Pigs plucks, 1 barrel; rabbits, cwt.; ducks, 2; geese, 3; fowls,
2; poultry, 2 cwt.; conger eel, 3Jlbs.; plaice, 4 trunks; haddocks, 38; skate, 841bs.;
escallops, 5 boxes ; tomatoes, 36 boxes ; apples, 2 barrels.
The ducks, fowls and haddocks were seized and carried before police magistrates
who condemned them and ordered their destruction. In the case of the ducks and
fowls, the person exposing them for sale, a boy in the street, absconded and could not
be found. With regard to the haddocks, it was not deemed necessary to take further
proceedings before a magistrate, but the person to whom they belonged was cautioned
by the Health Committee.
ICE CREAM SHOPS.
The following summarises the results of the inspection of the ice-cream shops in
the Borough during the year:—On Inspector Lear's district, seven were under inspection;
their condition generally was satisfactory; in one instance a notice was required
for cleansing. Inspector Pirth had thirteen under observation; their condition on the
whole was fairly satisfactory; in six, notices as to cleansing were required. On the
district of Inspector Jordan sixteen came under observation; their condition was
generally satisfactory; four notices were served with respect to cleansing. On
Inspector Langstone's district, nineteen were under inspection; their condition was
generally satisfactory; in one case it was necessary to serve a notice on account of
ice-cream being prepared in a room used for sleeping purposes, and in a second case a
notice was required to remedy defects in connection with a water-closet. Inspector
Clements had nine under observation; with the exception of one, they were in a very
satisfactory condition, only a few small matters needing attention. The exception
was a shop at 128a, Hoxton Street, which was situate on premises in a very unsanitary
state. These premises were closed by order of a magistrate.
Altogether, 64 places where ice-cream was manufactured and sold were under
inspection. Of these 49 were found to be kept in a satisfactory condition. In the
remaining, 15 sanitary notices were required chiefly on account of cleansing. As
compared with last year, there is a general improvement in the conditions under
which ice-cream is made in the Borough.