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Inspector had to be content with the second sample of butter,
but there was found, fortunately, a small, but sufficient,
quantity of the first sample of butter on the Inspector's glove,
and this, on analysis, proved to be margarine, as far as the
analysis could be made, having regard to the small quantity
of sample available.
A summons was applied for at the Lambeth Police Court
against Mrs. Lewis, for wilfully obstructing and impeding the
Inspector in the course of her duties under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, and the Magistrate (Mr. Curtis Bennett), on hearing
the case on July 17th, 1907, fined Mrs. Lewis £5 with £5 5s.
costs.
The Food and Drugs Inspector (Inspector Perrin) was ill during
9 months of the year, and his special work under the Food and
Drugs Acts was carried out during that time by the ordinary
District Inspectors and the Female Inspectors, the latter being
specially authorised to act in this way by resolution on May
13th, 1907.*