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3. Infringements of the Acts and Regulations were discovered as follows,
viz.:—
(a) Registration Nil.
(b) Notification of change of Master Nil.
(c) Certificates Nil.
(d) Marking Nil.
(e) Overcrowding Nil.
(/) Separation of Sexes Nil.
(g) Cleanliness Nil.
(h) Ventilation Nil.
(i) Painting Two.
(j) Provision of Water Cask Nil.
(k) Removal of Bilge Water Nil.
(/) Notification of Infectious Diseases Nil.
(m) Admittance of Inspector Nil.
(n) Cabin roof not weatherproof One.
4. No legal proceedings were taken.
5. In the case of the above infringements, notices were sent to the Owners
of the Boats, requiring them to remedy the cause of complaint and to forward
within a specified period certificates signed by some duly appointed Inspector
of Canal Boats, that the same had been duly done, and such certificates were
afterwards received.
6. No case of Infectious Disease occurred.
7. No Boats were detained for cleansing and disinfection.
8. The number of Boats on the Register on the 31st December, 1906,
was 69.
9. No Boats were registered in 1906.
Two children only were found on the boats.
Examination of Food.
Possibly no subject has created more attention during the year than the
question of the examination of food generally, and canned food in particular.
It is not necessary to believe entirely the sensational statements made in
a recently published book, nor is it essential that we should turn a deaf ear to
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