Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, 1933.
The results of the Summonses taken out during the year are summarised in the following tables:-
Premises. | Offence. | Fine. | Costs. | ||
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Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | £ | s. | d. | ||
Section 4. | |||||
56, Shirland Road | Basement, scullery walls and ceiling dirty and ceiling plaster defective | Work done. Summons Withdrawn | — | ||
12, Walterton Road | Failing to unstop choked drain | £10* | 25 | 0 | 0* |
Bye-laws pursuant to Above and | |||||
Other Acts. | |||||
9, Carlton Vale | Failing to give notice of alterations to sanitary fittings | £1 | — | ||
46, Cleveland Square.. | Failing to give notice of intention to execute sanitary work | £1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Executing work in a manner contrary to the | Defects remedied | — | |||
Bye-laws | Summons withdrawn | ||||
21, Clifton Road | Failing to provide adequate ventilation to kitchen used for fish frying | Summons adjourned sine die. Proceedings abandoned on payment of £5 5s. costs after completion of necessary works | |||
3, Hyde Park Place | Failing to submit plans of drainage works executed | Summons withdrawn | 0 | 10 | 6 |
175, Maida Vale | Failing to give notice and submit plans of alterations to sanitary fittings, and executing work in a manner contrary to the Bye-laws | Summons withdrawn | 2 | 12 | 6 |
22 and 24, Monmouth Road | Failing to give notice of intention to commence combined drainage work | £1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Executing work in a manner contrary to Byelaws | Defects remedied Summons withdrawn | — | |||
5, Senior Street | Failing to carry out annual cleansing | Work done Summons withdrawn | — | ||
91, Warrington Crescent | Failing to submit plans of drainage works executed | £1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
11, Westbourne Terrace Road | Failing to give notice and submit plans of alterations to sanitary fittings, and executing work in a manner contrary to the Bye-laws | Summonses withdrawn | 2 | 2 | 0 |
*Appeal against conviction allowed by Quarter Sessions, without costs.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Section 47.
Offence. | Fine. | Costs. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
£ | s. | d. | ||
Selling one meat pie and exposing for sale four meat pies which were unsound and unfit for food of man | Summons in respect of the sale of one pie withdrawn. No conviction recorded in respect of remaining summons, but defendant ordered to pay £1 costs. | |||
Having in possession certain articles of food (viz., mutton, beef, beef fat and a rabbit) which were unsound | £3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Exposing for sale 71 rabbits which were unsound | 10s. | — |
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928.
Offence. | Fine. | Costs. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
£ | s. | d. | |||
Milk—9.53 per cent. of added water | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
„ 18.33 per cent., 12 per cent., and 14 per cent. deficient in fat | - | 5 | 5 | 0 | |
Vinegar—9.5 per cent. deficient in acetic acid | — | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
Milk—25.66 per cent. deficient in fat | £1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |