The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

Boitonctu Pr Y Sreformg, September 30 —Magis-
trates: The Mayor E. Hounsell. Esq ), and J.
Williams, Faq.—Samuel Lee was charged with leaving
his wle end family without means of suppor4.-161m
Bettie, relieving officer, said he went yteerday to Lee's
wife, who had been eotilintd two days before, and bed
sent to him tenl hit she w/o quite destitute, having
three 7oung children to support besides this one. She
toil him her husband had been drinking for fourteen
weeks suocessively, and had given her very little to
support herself and family ; he accordingly gave her
4s. 6d. relief. The husband was able to work and to
maintipn his wife and family. Edward Farr, brother
of Lee's wife, stated that his sister was a cripple, and
her husband was one of the most inveterate thinkers,
and had been drinking very much ; a fortnight
ago his sister had nothing to support herself with, and
was oblige I even to sell her wedding ring. The husband
hal pawned even thing he oonld lay bands on, even his
son's boots, and his sister hoped he woo d be im-
prisoned for some time, as she Ives ifraid be wotild
illtre4 her else.—Pr soner, who begged to be let
ith a Ilne,was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonitient
with hare labour, the Mayor remarking that he thought
it • case which Ailed for a greater punishment than a
fin*.

' Muglnn OP UNWHOLPBOIIII MEAT.—Flanry Patten,
Tuspector of Nuisances for the Local Board, attended
before the borough magietratte on Sa-urday and stated
that, on Friday morning, Thomas Nicholls, a pork
butcher, in South-street, called him in and dedred him
to inspect his premises, and see if the salted meat be
had was diseasod. He examined, accordingly, the pickle
tub in the room behind the chop, and rotted 4311 w, of
pork which was stinking and quite unfit for huntan
food. He believed Nicholls had been Using chloride of
lime to get rid of the smell. if. comiiiiinicated with a
mturistrate, and the taint evening seized the pir anti
took it away. ft *et quite Nicholls's Wish to , ave it
taken attest, for It ivaa through his nailing him ( att,,n)
In that he knew of the ease at all le aaked if any hod
been ofrred for tile, and he said "N' o." His applica-
tion now w' 1 for .tui order to have the meat destroyed.
—Thomas n chelte then stated that he purchased the
i meet (two itthes) that day fortnight of Mr. Clout late
In the eVening, and on the Monday following he found
%tat the meat had a sickly smelt He called in Mr.
Clent and showed it to him, and told him he thought it
was bad ; but Hr. Clent told him it woo all right, and
be must salt it, which he did, but the meat got Worse,
and he then called in Mr, Pe-ten. He thought it
singular that the part which IV it ',d wa* pet the part
which usually got bad if not salted pro erly. iiii lied
, sold notie of it, and it geoid be Ace by the ace-unit he
. had paid Mr, Clent, that the Otinttilty Seited was the
same that liti bbueht of biro. lie ,paid for it
aa gerund meat, and there was no understanding
between Mr. Clout and him that he should have
the meat cheaper as being inferior. He had looked
after the meat very carefully and sttended to it re.
gularly, no one could have attended more to it than he
had • it had not been expneed for sale in his shop, but
had laisen kept in a room behind.—Mr. Clent, butcher;
Southetreet, stated he was aware that !WO lets of pork
had been sold by him 011 this particular SattirdaY, which
had afterwards become bad, one it t 4 Mr Pidgeon at
the Harbour, and the other to .if ioholle, bet the
meat was good when he sold it. e bed boated in some
of the pork himeelf and that was very soot. The
weather ins very Seem at the time, and he knew of
sewers! came *there other butchers had wilted in meat
and It hod been spoilt—Mrc. Coates in Etarmok-street
had spoilt some; she had not bought it of hint &greet
deal depended upon how the meat was loeted after in
salting, it ought to be attended tie seer'? day. He had
two pigs for sale on that Milt which he bought of Mr.
Biddlecombe, Symendsbary, they were the only pi ga he .
had on the% dig, for which he paid Ils. per wore —the ,
"markt% Mee at the time. He believed the pigs to be '
edits, snend, he should not have given lls. a 'core if he
had not thought so; he employed a man named John
Taylor to kill these pigs for him. He kill. d 411 his pigs.
He was probably in the market and if Ballad oriel& !tale
how the pigs were when he killed them. —John Taylor
having been bent for, stated that he lulled two pilaf foi
Mr. Chant on Thursday fortnight, whMh were all right,
aagl Tyrrell!, sound. Re had net killed any di-eased
=lay( he had he .hold have made it keown,es it would
be his duty 'to do to. --The magistrates stated t was
very itneortant now the Cattle Plague was raging that
nettles should be taken of a case of this sort, and she
Matter fully investigated, and that the public ahould
be made aware that any one dealing in an article of
this tie& and keeping it in his possession, would be
severely punished. As regards Nicholls he appeared
not to have exposed for sale, or to have sold any of the
Meet, and having given notice himself to,,at Patt,•n,
there would be no puidelimeht feir him, only the nieat ,
muse be destroyed, ate! tte 'meld have to lose the value
of it, and they ',tweeted that perhepi he could
m.lie some arrangement with Mr. Clout about it.
--The Magistrates then ofdrifed blie meat to he
destroyed at once and directed the police to make
bluiries of Mr. tiddlecombe about the matter.—
Me F. W. flindry thought that it would be b thee to
real the section of the Act itself that the public might
be Bearer *bet the law wwi-213 and 27 Viet., cap. 117,
!section 2.—" Power to medical- officer of heath or

inisp-ia-c-toi:- of nuisances to inspeet any submit, Sts—
The medical offic-r of health or inspector of nuisances
may at all reamnable times iuspeot and examine any
animal, carea.e, meat, poultry, game, flesh, Itslt,, fruit,
veeetables, corn, bread, or flour expoeed for sale, pr de-
posited in any plaoe for the pnrpOse ot sale, or of pre-
paration for sal., and intended tot the food of Man, the
proof that the same was not ekpbAd Or deposited for
such purpose or purposes, or was not ilt-nded for the
• food el soon, renting With the party charged; and in.
case any such animal, carcase, meet, poultry, gain.,
fish, fish, fruit, Vegetables, corn, bread, or osir
appear to him to be dinemed, or unsound r unwhole-
some, or aunt for the food of man it shall be lawful for
sash medical either of health, ..r inspector of nuisance.,
to /40lit take and oarr, away the some, or direot the
same to be ;eitilPi, taken and carried away by any
ofiloer,.servant, or assistant,, in order to have the same
dealt with by a justice; and, if it shall appear to the
justices that any such animal, or any of the said artiolea.
is diseased, or unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for
the food of man, he ehallorder the some to be destroyed,
or 40 diapeeed of as to prevent such animal or articles
from being exposed for sale or used for such food; and
the person to whom inch animal, carcase, meat,
poultry, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, oorn bread,
or flour' p, or did belong at the time of sale, or of
sale,,' lose

, game,
' belongs,