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Food Inspection.—Each of the twelve Inspectors is required
to inspect the food shops and slaughter-houses in his district. In
addition to these, the Food Inspector, who devotes the greater part of
his time to the administration of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, is
charged equally with the other Inspectors with the duty of safeguarding
the sale of food in market streets and other premises where
dietary articles are exposed for sale.
In the appendix to this report will be found a list of unsound food
seized as unfit and unwholesome at its time of exposure for sale or
condemned without formal seizure under Section 117, Public Health
Act, 1875.
During the year 1910 legal proceedings were instituted in three
cases under the above section. In the first case the defendant was
charged with depositing for the purpose of preparation for sale two
pieces of unsound bacon, but the summons was dismissed. In the
second case the defendant was charged with exposing for sale in his
shop 22 tins of unsound condensed milk, and was fined £5. In the
third case the defendant was charged with depositing for sale nine
pints of unsound shrimps, and the Magistrate imposed a penalty of £2.
Inspection of Bakehouses and Fishshops.—This is
also carried out by the Inspectors, particular attention being directed
to the regular refnoval of offal and trade refuse, which in all cases
(except that of greengrocers) is carried out by private contractors.
An application for sanction to a new bakehouse at 48, Upton Lane,
was not entertained.
Slaughter-houses.—There are now upon the Register 16
old registered slaughter-houses and one registered knacker's yard,
together with 15 annually licensed slaughter-houses and one annually
licensed knacker's yard. Owing to the proximity to the London
market the amount of slaughtering carried out locally forms a small