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The following Table gives the record of prosecutions for overcrowding, and of persons displaced, in the City of Victoria, in consequence of such proceedings, during the past three years.
Prosecutions.
Average
No. of persons No. of persons in
displaced.
excess per house.
1904 First Quarter,
436
Second
139
341
2.4
Third
56
489
8.7
Fourth
53
327
6.2
"
1905 First Quarter,
Second
21
Third
Fourth
1906 First Quarter,.
Second
77
Third
>>
Fourth
"
Total,...
248
1,157
4.7
121
701
5.8
84
620
7.4
134
650
4.8
154
1,264
8.2
Total,
193
3,235
6.6
Total,
95
594
6.2
224
1,222
5.1
118
762
6.4
75
563
7,5
512
Record of prosecutions for this quarter not available.
3.141
6.1
ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS.
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Twenty-eight samples of milk were taken for analysis during the year and all were found to be pure.
Various lots of condensed milk, cases of hams, and other perishable foods which had become unsound, were seized and destroyed, usually on the application of the owner or his agent. The purity of alcoholic liquors is dealt with by the Police, who periodically submit samples for analysis.
PROSECUTIONS.
A list of prosecutions undertaken during the year for breaches of the Sanitary Laws and Regulations of the Colony is given in Table III.