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Inspector Clements visited 14 cook-shops and coffee-houses and 8 fried-fish shops.
Eleven of them were in a satisfactory sanitary condition. In the remainder sanitary
notices were necessary, in five instances for securing cleanliness of premises, in five
instances for more or less serious defects in connection with the drains and sanitary
arrangements, and in one case for defects in the yard paving with absence of a proper
dust receptacle. Inspector Clements also had under observation a place where jam
is manufactured, and a brawn factory from which retail shops are supplied. The former
was in a clean condition but a sanitary notice was required in connection with the
latter establishment, which had to be visited at frequent intervals for a time in order
to secure the necessary attention to matters of cleanliness.
Altogether 161 cook-shops and eating-houses, including 12 public-houses and 40
fried-fish shops, were under observation during the year, as compared with 148 and 39
respectively for 1903. Some 635 visits of inspection were made in connection with these
premises. Where they were not found to be kept in a satisfactory condition they were
visited at frequent intervals until the necessary improvement had taken place. As the
result of inspection 118 cook-shops and eating-houses and 27 fried-fish shops were
found to be in a satisfactory and cleanly condition. With regard to the remainder want
of proper attention to cleanliness was the chief evil met with. In all cases sanitary
notices were served upon the parties responsible and the necessary steps were taken to
remedy the defects found existing.
STREET-MARKETS AND FOOD.
The usual supervision was exercised by the Sanitary Officers over the street markets
and the foodstuffs exposed for sale generally in the Borough. Frequent inspections
were made with a view to the detection of unsound food. On the whole it may be
stated that the quality of the various articles of food exposed for sale was excellent.
The folowing were destroyed during the year as being unfit for the food of man :—
One carcase of a calf, 21 sheeps' hearts, 41bs. of salt beef, one barrel containing
80 pigs' plucks, about 3 cwt. of rabbits, 2 hampers of pigeons and one of chickens;
half a barrel of conger eels, 3 boxes of eels, 17 trunks of plaice and dabs, 2 trunks of
plaice and haddocks, 3 boxes of skate, 1 trunk of cod, 9 boxes of haddocks and 30
soles; condensed skimmed milk in tins 21 cases, each case containing six dozen tins;
2½ boxes of oranges, 6 crates of bananas, 5 baskets of grapes, 1 box of onions, 1 case
of olives and pears, and 15 sacks of pota' oes.
One box of oranges was seized by Inspector Clements as being unfit for the food
of man. A part of this box was destroyed by the owner. The remainder contained
120 oranges, was taken before a Magistrate, who condemned and ordered 70 of the
oranges to be destroyed. The remainder were restored to the owner. The owner
claimed that the whole of the 120 oranges were fit for food. No proceedings were
thought advisable.