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Unsound Food.
Quantities of vegetables, fruit, &c., are brought to us by the
purchasers, usually street hawkers, who have bought at market
auctions. Certificates as to tho condition in which wo find the
articles aro given, and tho matter is settled between vendor and
purchaser. Other cases calling for special note are the following:—
Minute of Sanitary Committee MeetinG,
6th January, 1892.
Inspoctor Weston reported that ho had seized 114 turkeys in a
putrid condition from 231, C Road. Those contained in
three of tho crates were offered to him for sale. The turkeys were
conveyed to Worship Street Police Court, and condemned by the
magistrate as unfit for food.
Mr. H. P. attended, and asked that the Committee would not take
proceedings against him, as the turkeys were offered for sale by his
foreman without his knowledge.
Resolved.
That as this was a first offence, and Mr. P. acknowledges his
fault, and agrees to pay all costs, no furthor action be taken.
On February 17th, R. P. was fined £5 and costs for exposing for
sale on a stall in Cambridge Road a quantity of meat, consisting of
nino pieces of mutton, such meat being in an unsound condition and
unfit for food.
BAKEHOUSES.
Tho bakehouses have been cart-fully inspected. Of these 102
are in occupation, but twenty others (including those in the
Boundary Street area) are closed.
In forty per cent, the bread is made in cellars, which are usually
situated under the shops, where the retail business is carried on ;
the remainder of the bakehouses are behind the shops, either on a
level with the pavement, or only a few steps down.
In the whole of the parish I only found seven of these places in,
what I should call, a clean and satisfactory condition; the others
are either dirty and untidy, or some sanitary fault was found, such