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ADMINISTRATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT)
REGULATIONS, 1924, AS REGARDS STALLS, SHOPS, STORES
AND VEHICLES.
Experience has shown how increasingly difficult the administration
of these Regulations has become since the issue of Circular 604.
The inspectors have persistently endeavoured to get butchers to
conform with the spirit of the Regulations, but in the absence of
compulsion, the result has been unsatisfactory.
After continual warnings, one prosecution in respect of dirty
meat exposed for sale at a lock-up shop, which had an open
front extending from floor to ceiling and occupying a position in
narrow, dusty and busy street, was instituted. At the local
police court a fine of £5 was imposed. On appeal to Quarter
Sessions the conviction was upheld with costs. The principle involved
was the provision of a glass front, and this was strenuously
contested by the London Retail Meat Traders' Federation.

In view of subsequent explanations no proceedings were instituted
in respect of the three seizures.