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The enteritidis reaction was given only by emulsion 

 A. 



B. coli was, therefore, present in 1/10,000 part of a 

 mussel but was absent in 1/100,000 part. 



I think that the above results leave no room for doubt 

 that the mussels from the bed near the St. Annes Sewage 

 Outfall are most gravely polluted by micro-organisms of 

 intestinal (or faecal) origin. 



2. — Report on an Examination or the Mussel Beds 



AT MORECAMBE. 



An analysis of mussels from the " Ring-Hole," 

 Morecambe, was made in July of this year, and 

 a Report was presented to the Chairman of the Joint 

 Committee. That Report was only a preliminary one, 

 and was only intended to show whether or not it was 

 desirable to make a more exhaustive examination. It 

 was evident that further enquiry was necessary, and on 

 15th September, at the time of the low spring tides, 

 Mr. Scott and I visited Morecambe for this purpose. I 

 desire here to state that every assistance was given to us 

 by the Local Sanitary Authority, and that no information 

 that we asked for was withheld. On this first visit we 

 were accompanied by Alderman Thomas Baxter, Alderman 

 Snowden, the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, 

 Councillor Miller, Inspector Lamb and Mr. E. Gardner, 

 the local Fishery Officer. We saw the sewer outfalls 

 and some of the mussel beds, and collected a number of 

 samples from the vicinity of the main sewer outfalls, from 

 " Baiting-Knot " Skear, and from Ring-Hole. These 

 samples were taken at about 6 p.m., near the time of low 

 water. Again, on 5th October, Mr. Scott and I made 

 another visit to Morecambe and met Dr. Watterson, the 



