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nection with 6 of them. Inspector Pearson visited 18, including the kitchens
of 2 public.houses. In 7 instances sanitary notices were necessary, chiefly for
cleansing and in 1 case the drains were defective.
Altogether 197 cook.shops and eating.houses, including the kitchens of
15 public.houses, were under inspection during the year, as compared with
188 in 1907, 178 in 1906 and 182 in 1905. In 66 instances sanitary notices
were served in connection with them, chiefly on account of a lack of proper
attention as regards cleanliness
FRIED.FISH SHOPS.
The number of fried fish shops under observation was 46; in 12 instances
sanitary notices were required, in 9 for cleansing, in 1 for defective yard
paving, and in 2 for other sanitary defects. Inspector Firth notes that there
has been a great improvement in respect to the shops on his district since
the introduction of hermetically sealed cylinders for the removal of fish offal.
STREET MARKETS AND FOOD.
The usual supervision was exercised by the sanitary officers in connection
with the street markets and the food exposed for sale in the Borough, and
frequent inspections were made with a view to detecting unsound or unwholesome
food. An inspector is also on duty for this purpose during the
evening in accordance with the instructions of the Council. The following
articles were destroyed as unfit for food :—
Two boxes of cod fish, 29 stone and 1 barrel of skate, 7 lbs. of turbot
with roes, 18 lbs. of soles, 2 boxes of clabs, 2 sacks of whelks, 4 tons of sheep's
tongues, 6 tons 8 cwt. of cabbages, 109 sacks of savoy greens, ¾ case of onions,
1 case of asparagus, 5 cases of bananas, 88 lbs. of apples, 3 cases and 116
oranges, 1½ bushels of cherries, ¾ bushel of plums, 31 barrels of raspberries,
and 10 tins of condensed milk.
Most of the articles destroyed were surrendered as unfit for food. In
one instance some oranges were seized, and condemned, and ordered to be
destroyed by the magistrate. No proceedings followed as the owner who
had them for sale could not be traced. In 2 other cases rotten oranges exposed
for sale were seized, and ordered to be destroyed by the magistrate. The
persons who were offering them for sale were prosecuted, and convicted, and
fined as stated on page 39.
The turpot and roes mentioned were also seized at a fried.fish shop
as being prepared for sale. They were ordered to be destroyed by the
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