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STREET MARKETS AND FOOD.
The usual supervision was exercised by the Sanitary Officers as regards food
exposed for sale. The following were seized or surrendered and destroyed as unfit
for the food of man: 2½ lbs. faggots, 31 hams, 2 tons 2 cwts. offal, 2 cwts. pigs' feet,
10 rabbits, 2 fowls, 2 boxes bream, 1 cwt. conger-eel, 60 crabs, 84 lbs. dabs, 2 qrs.
and four boxes haddocks, 3 cwts. mackerel, 2 qrs. plaice, one box, 1 cwt. 78 lbs.
skate, 3 qrs. skate and dog fish, two sacks winkles, 3 barrels apples, 84 lbs. bananas,
two-thirds of a railway truck of brussels sprouts, one barrel, 2½ cwts. grapes, half ton
potatoes, 1 cwt. 2 qrs. 14 lbs. and five tubs strawberries, 20 bundles tomatoes,
and 3 cwts. william pears.
Legal proceedings were taken against the persons upon whose premises the
faggots and the two fowls and the rabbit mentioned above were deposited for the
purpose of sale for human food.
In the case of the faggots the defendant was ordered to pay a guinea costs.
With respect to the fowls and rabbit the defendant was fined £8 and ordered to pay
£2 2s. costs.
SLAUGHTERHOUSES.
The two slaughterhouses in use in the Borough were subject to the usual
inspection and some 38 visits of inspection were made in connection with them.
Their general sanitary condition may be reported as satisfactory. Some 56 butchers'
shops besides other premises upon which meat is sold were also under supervision
during the year.
COWHOUSES.
The usual inspection of the cowhouses in the Borough was carried out, some
19 visits of inspection being made. Their sanitary condition may be reported as
satisfactory. On October 1st the number of cows kept was 28, one more than last
year.
The number of dairymen and milk purveyors on the register at the end of the
year was 256. During the year the sale of milk was discontinued inl6 and commenced
in 17, and in 32 instances there were changes in the names of the persons registered.
The premises were under observation throughout the year, some 1,665 visits being
made in connection with them. In 15 instances sanitary notices were served,
the chief items requiring attention being general cleansing, defective roofs, defective
drains, and defective dust receptacles. No cases of notifiable infectious disease were
certified on any of the milk vendors' premises during the year.
MILK AND CREAM REGULATIONS, 1912.
None of the samples of milk submitted to the Public Analyst were reported as
containing any preservative, No samples of cream were submitted.