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MEAT AND FOOD INSPECTION.
Frequent inspections have been made of premises and shops
where food is prepared or kept for sale ; and in fourteen instances
the food which came under my observation was found to be
unwholesome. In seven instances the articles were destroyed by
consent of the owner upon attention being called to the condition of
the food; and in seven instances application was made before a
Justice of the Peace and an order, in each case, obtained to destroy
the food so as to prevent it being used for the food of man.
The carcases of two pigs in an extremely emaciated and
dropsical condition were seized from a butcher's shop, and a quantity
of beef and pork from another shop.
The matters were fully reported to your Committee, and the
persons in whose possession the same were found were severely
reprimanded, and no further action was taken.
In another instance a quantity of beef and mutton was seized
from the basement of a sausage maker's premises, the same being
utterly unfit for food. Proceedings were taken, and the defendant
was fined 20s. and £3 3s. costs (vide Table ia).

DAIRIES, COWSHEDS and MILK-SHOPS.
The above have been inspected as occasion required and the
regulations enforced.
Five applications for registration as Purveyors of Milk have been
made during the year, three being in respect of existing premises
the occupation of which have changed hands. The interior drainage