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Meat Storage.—The installation of refrigerators is now common,
and most of the larger shops have refrigerators for the storage of
perishable goods. Several butchers' shops have been provided with
glass fronts during the year.
Unsound Food.—The following foodstuffs were condemned and
destroyed as unfit for human food: —
2 boxes of fish.
56 lbs. of prawns.
3½ cwts. of cherries.
57 lbs. of pork.
1,424 packets of cheese.
3 boxes of candied peel.
1 box of sultanas.
84 lbs. of biscuits.
69 rabbits.
1½ bushels of pickled cucumbers.
2,016 tins of milk (for pig
feeding).
99 lbs. of tea.
13½ cwts. of figs.
1 box of preserved cherries.
33 lbs. of chocolate.
12 tins of salmon.
A part of my time has been occupied in supervision of work at the
Disinfection Station, etc., and special work in the Department at the
request of the Medical Officer of Health.

Weight of foodstuffs condemned: —
Meat 2 cwts. 3 qrs. 25 lbs.
Fish 1 „ 1 „ 12 „
Fruit, etc. 18 „ 2 „ 7 „
Provisions, etc. 1 ton 8 ,, 0 „ 16 „