[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sheep, and one (1) Pig. The weight of meat condemned was two thousand six-hundred and twenty-six (2626) pounds. The offal (lungs, bowels, stomach, fat, &c., &c.,) of sixty-six (66) other beasts have been condemned and ordered to be destroyed. One butcher has been summoned for offering for sale diseased meat and two other persons for aiding and abetting the offence. The keeper of the butcher’s shop—a woman, was convicted of exposing diseased meat for sale and was ordered to pay the costs of the trial only, as she was considered to be acting under the influence of her husband. He absconded and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The other person, who was summoned for aiding and abetting, was hiied <£7 and costs. Ten (10) cases of Chimney Firing were tried at the Petty Sessions—six (6) were fined one shilling and costs and four (4) sixpence and costs. No summonses has been issued for emitting black smoke from Factory Chimneys. The period of ten minutes per hour allowed by your Council is so very liberal that it allows a large margin above what is strictly necessary, and, I think, might be curtailed with advantage to the town The C’ounty Police have taken sixty (60) samples of Pood and Drugs—under the Food and Drugs Adulterations Act—and have sub- mitted these samples to the County Analyst. The samples were of the following Articles. Milk, twenty-five (25) ; Butter, eleven (11); Lard, eight, (8); Coffee and Pepper, four (4) each ; Vinegar and Jam, two (2) each ; and Ginger, Cheese, Yeast, and Golden Syrup, one (1) each. One person has been summoned for selling Adulterated Pepper and has been fined ten shillings and costs. I append to my Report copies of the Six Tables directed to be sent to the Local Government Board, and in the last list. Table 1., I give all the Sanitary improvements made, defects remedied and Nuisanees abated by your orders and on the report of the Inspector of Nuisances— whose work and that of his xVssistants have been carried on very efficiently in 1905 as in the preceding years. [U]