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enforced. Sec. 14 referring to the provision of means of escape
in case of fire is being enforced by the Engineer and Chief
Surveyor's Department
Sec. 22, Public Health (Amendment) Act, 1890.
Several improvements at various Workplaces have been
effected under the above Section during the year.
Particulars of Food Inspections.
During the five months from July to December inclusive,
1491 inspections have been made, viz:—612 butchers, 282
fruiterers, and 597 fishmongers, and all the stalls in the streets
have been inspected on Friday and Saturday nights.
Large quantities of fruit (apples, bananas, cherries,
plums, damsons, lemons, and pears); vegetables (peas, brussels
sprouts, tomatoes); fish (haddocks, kippers, gurnets), and meat
(beef, lungs, kidneys, &c.) have been condemned and destroyed.
There has been a decided decrease in the quantity which
it has been necessary to condemn during the past two months.
The slaughterhouses, cowsheds, dairies and milkshops
have been periodically visited, and notices in many cases served
to abate nuisances. The required works have in nearly all cases
been effected.
All the Slaughterhouses throughout the district are
placed in such close proximity to dwelling houses, and are in
many cases so defective in construction, that it would be most
desirable if the Council could see its way clear to erect a Public
Abattoir the advantages of which, to the district in general,
would be very considerable indeed.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.

Gipsy Encampments.
252 encampments (as against 98 last year) have been
removed by your Inspectors, exclusive of those dealt with by the
Police.