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SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875-9.
Inspector's Report for the year ending 31st December,
1898.
Gentlemen,
During the past year I have submitted 55
samples of food to the Public Analyst for analysis,
as follows:—
New Milk 44
Butter 5
Sweets 1
Lard 5
55
Four samples of milk were adulterated with
water to the extent of 6, 10, 11, and 25 per cent,
respectively. Your Council ordered proceedings tobe
taken in each case : an old offender was fined
£10 : 12 : 6 ; in the case of first conviction of a small
vendor, a fine of 20/- was inflicted; a third defendant
produced the warranty required by statute, and the
case was dismissed ; the fourth case was that of a
servant in the employment of a large dairy firm,
whom I caught in the act of adulterating the milk
from a public urinal; the defendant pleaded guilty,
and the Magistrate having characterized the case as
an exceptionally bad one, imposed a fine of £3, or the
alternative of one month's hard labour.
The total amount received from fines and costs
during the year amounted to £14 : 12 : 6.