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nuisance. With few exceptions only one application was necessary
owing to the drying up of the ponds and ditches during the hot
summer.
Food Inspection.—Inspections are regularly made to food
establishments, particularly butchers and fishshops. 1,226 visits
were paid to such places, in addition to 460 visits to the seven
regulated slaughterhouses. These include two horse-slaughtering
establishments where very little business is done. In the course of
the visits the following articles of food were found to be diseased or
unwholesome and were surrendered and destroyed and a certificate
given to the owner of the condemned food:—Pork, 1,509 lbs., of
which 765 lbs. were tuberculous, jaundiced, 160 lbs., pleurisy, 72 lbs.,
peritonitis, 64 lbs., fevered, 152 lbs., dropsy, 96 lbs., decomposed
meat, 80 lbs., meat otherwise unsound, 120 lbs. ; 445 pigs lungs,
130 pigs' livers, the carcase of a tuberculous cow weighing 400 lbs.,
the liver and other organs.
The Inspectors were also called upon to examine at tradesmen's
shops 14 lbs. of halibut, 42 lbs. of cod, 60 lbs. kippers, barrel of
herrings, eight cases of oranges, and eight sacks of greens, all of
which were found to be in such a decomposed state as to be unfit
for human food, and were certified as such and destroyed. Three
breaches of the Meat Regulations (keeping meat in prohibited places)
were detected and the practice stopped.
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928.
Licences have been granted to 81 persons in the district to
store petroleum spirit, and three to store carbide of calcium. The
quantity licensed to be stored totals 97,155 gallons ; of this quantity
90,665 gallons is stored underground in steel tanks surrounded with
concrete.
Shops Acts.
Several complaints have been made of shop-keepers keeping
open after proper closing hours. Observations have been made and
warnings given, one report was made to the Committee and an
official warning given.
I am,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES G. EABBETTS,
Senior Sanitary Inspector.