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caused a considerable amount of annoyance and anxiety to the
residents of the houses during the summer. They were difficult to
find in the daytime, but at night were very much in evidence. A
liberal spraying with paraffin and creosote of the footpaths front
and rear of the houses and heaps of loose material on ground in the
vicinity, the laying of a specially prepared bait, and ultimately the
making up of the road and footpaths at the front of the houses,
effected abatement of the nuisance.
All ponds, ditches or other places in the Borough where
mosquito breeding was possible were sprayed with paraffin twice
early in the year.
Food Inspection.— Periodical inspections were made of butcher
shops, fish shops and other places where food is sold. Seven
hundred and seventy-nine such visits of inspection were made ; no
unwholesome food was discovered. The Inspectors were called in
to examine the following articles of food: rabbits, 9; codfish, 112
lbs.; haddocks, 28 lbs.; tomatoes, 14 lbs. All were found unfit for
human food and, certified as such, was destroyed. Three hundred
and ninety-seven visits were paid to the five registered or licensed
slaughterhouses in the Borough, and on examination of the
slaughtered animals the following amount of food was found to be
diseased or unwholesome and unfit for human food and was surrendered
for destruction: carcases of pigs, 5,274 lbs. (of which
2,582 lbs. was affected with tuberculosis, 228 lbs. septic poisoning,
381 lbs. jaundice, 360 lbs. peritonitis, 524 lbs. dropsy, 326 lbs.
inflammation, 654 lbs. emaciated, 73 lbs. bruised, 87 lbs. swine
fever); 59 pigs' livers, tuberculosis; 84 pigs' livers, cirrhosis; 286
pigs' lungs; 200 lbs. beef, dropsy; 36 lbs. beef, tuberculosis; one
set of cow's lungs.
Two breaches of the Pood Regulations were discovered (keeping
fruit and vegetables in unwholesome places), and one breach of the
Meat Regulations (improper storage of meat). In each of the cases
the practice was immediately stopped.
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928.
Licences were granted to 91 persons in the Borough to store
petroleum spirit and cellulose solutions, and two to store carbide of