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I am sure that this will be of great benefit, not only to the health,
but to the comfort of the inhabitants of these townships, and any default
in the regular carrying out of the contract should be at once communicated
to the Nuisance Inspector, Mr. J. Froes, 111, Moor-road, Chorley.
You advertised also and received tenders for the scavenging of
Rivington, but the cost seemed so prohibitory that you did not accept
either of the tenders. Another from the Liverpool Corporation will be
laid before you very shortly.
Dairies and Cowsheds.—I have practically completed my visitation
of the Farms, Dairies, and Cowsheds in your district, and have complied
a mass of information as the result of such inspection.
I have examined into the lighting, ventilation, drainage, and
cleansing of the shippons, the amount of air space contained in each building,
the number of cows, both milkers and otherwise, kept at the time of my
visit by the farmer, the condition of the Dairy, the water supplied to the
cattle, and also I have ascertained whether milk was sold in the district or
sent away to towns, whether butter or cheese was made by the farmers, etc.
In some cases I found that everything was satisfactory, the cowsheds
with sufficient cubic air space for each cow, well ventilated and lighted, and
with the drainage outside the shippon, a plentiful supply of good water, and
a clean, well-attended-to dairy.
In the majority of cases there were one or more defects, some slight,
and only temporary, such as the blocking up of ventilating holes, covering
over the outside grids, and thus driving sewer air into the cowsheds, etc.
In some cases, however, the cowsheds were wholly unfit for the
purpose, no light, no ventilation, less than half the lowest computation of
air space necessary for the health of a milking cow, defective drainage, and
dairies full of all kinds of articles of food, clothing, and rubbish
These cases I purpose to bring before your notice at an early
meeting of your General Purposes Committee.
You have adopted the Model Regulations of the Local Government
Board for Dairies and Cowsheds with slight alterations, and these Regulations
came into force at the beginning of the present year.
I intend also to bring bring before your notice the names and
addresses of several purveyors of milk, who have not as yet applied to be
put on the Register, in response to the advertisement in the newspapers,
eighteen months ago.
Factories and Workshops.—Very little work has been done by your
Officer during 1907, in respect of Factories and Workshops. I hope to
devote more time to the subject in 1908.
Food and Drugs Act.—The County Police have taken forty seven
(47) samples of food, and submitted them to the County Analysts No
adulteration warranting a prosecution has resulted. The examples taken
were Milk, thirteen (13); Butter, eight (8); Lard, five (5); Vinegar, five
(5); Jam, three (3); Ginger, three, (3); Coffee, three (3); Cheese, two (2);
Gin, two (2); Rum, Pepper, and Golden Syrup (1) each.