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being newly licensed during the year. Of the slaughterhouses
3 are in use regularly, the remainder being less frequently used.
Three hundred and eighty visits have been paid to slaughterhouses
during the year, and 177lbs. of diseased or unsound meat
have been voluntarily surrendered and sent to the destructor.
Some of the butchers now readily send for advice when conditions
of a doubtful character are met with.
Offensive Trades.—Under the appropriate byelaws, five
persons carry out the trade of fish-frying. Their premises have
been frequently visited and inspected.
During the year permission was granted in one case to
establish the business of a fish fryer.
Disposal of Manure.—Several manure pits have been
constructed or re-constructed so as to bring them into compliance
with the Byelaws, and five large accumulations of manure were
removed.
Cowsheds, Dairies and Milkshops.—The state of the
register on December 31st was:—
Cowkeepers, 6; purveyers of milk, 29; total persons
registered, 35.
Added during the year. Cowkeepers, nil; Purveyors, 11.
As a result of representations made, the premises of the two
largest cowkeepers in the district, keeping altogether 85 cows, have
been brought into a condition more in accordance with modern
requirements. The drainage was completely reconstructed, the
floors of the sheds relaid, ventilation of the sheds improved, the
yards paved, and a new cooling shed built.
The disposal of manure in the neighbourhood of cowsheds in
such a way as to discourage the breeding of flies, and the prevention
of the contamination of the milk by, at any rate, some cleansing of
the udders of the cows and the hands of the milker are all points of
which the value is not yet appreciated by the majority of cowkeepers,
although some progress may be reported in this direction.