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only a very short lease of the brickfield, and that it would not pay him to
construct a furnace or kilns. He, however, agreed to discontinne burning
the refuse, and permission was given him to complete the burning of the
present clamps, but he was cautioned not to commence any more.
FISH CURING.
All the fish curing premises in the parish have been visited by the
Sanitary Committee. They are, with some exceptions, in a reasonably
good condition, and the regulations have, in most instances, been complied
with. Most of the owners have provided covered receptacles for the fish
offal.
Considerable nuisance has been caused by the manner in which this fish
offal is collected and removed, as it has hitherto been done in open vans.
Notices were served upon the collectors to provide properly constructed
covered vessels for its reception; and the proprietor of one van was
summoned to Worship street for permitting the liquid filth to escape into
the carriageway of Virginia row, and fined ten shillings and costs.
BAD MEAT.
On the 14th of February Inspector Lapworth seized the carcasses of
three sheep and thirty-seven quarters of mutton, in the possession of a
general dealer, at 5, Glass street. Mr. Lapworth, who was evidently
quite unknown to the man, was himself solicited to purchase some of the
meat. I afterwards examined it, and found it diseased and in a most
offensive condition. The animals had either died of rot, or been killed to
save them from doing so.
The owner was summoned to Worship street, and it came out in evidence
that he had bought forty-one sheep, and had paid a sum of £8 4s. Od. for
the lot, an average of only four shillings each carcass, so that he must
have been quite aware of what he was buying, as no one would have sold
good meat at such a price.*
Mr. Hannay, the Magistrate, who had himself examined the meat,
considered it a very serious case. He told defendant he was liable to a
penalty of £80, or to imprisonment for a term of three months. He,
however, let him off with a fine of £10, and 12s. 6d. costs.
On February 20th Mr. Lapworth seized twenty-one pieces of beef and
* What became of the remainder we do not know.