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The following Table gives the record of prosecutions for overcrowding, and of persons displaced, in consequence of such proceedings, during the past three years.

1905....

1906.....

1907,.....

Prosecutions.

No. of persons displaced.

Average No. of persons iu

excess per house.

493

3,235

66

512

3,141

6-1

292

1,944

6-6

ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS.

Seventeen samples of milk were taken for analysis during the year and all were found to be pure.

Various lots of condensed milk, cases of hans, 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.

A note on the present Plague procedure and the reports of the Medical Officers in charge of Hospitals and Sub-Departments are printed as Annexes A to P of this report.

1st February, 1908.

J. M. ATKINSON, M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.S.A., D.P.H.,

Principal Civil Medical Officer,

FRANCIS CLARK, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health.