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of unsound or unwholesome food. A sanitary inspector was on duty every
evening for this and other purposes in accordance with the instructions of the
Borough Council.
The following articles were destroyed as unfit for the food of man: —
Herrings, 4 cases ; plaice, 9 boxes ; smoked filleted haddocks, 7 lbs.;
codlings, 1 trunk and 45 separate fish ; haddocks, 1 box ; whiting, 5 stones ;
escallops ½ bag; poultry, 2 qrs. 13 lbs., besides a number of gizzards, heads,
necks, and other parts of fowls ; rabbits, 15; sheeps' livers, 28 lbs. ; brussel
sprouts, 4 tons 4 cwt. 1 qr. ; greens, 22 cwt. ; tomatoes, 7 cases ; strawberries,
10 pecks ; bananas, 13 ; apples, 4 lbs. ; chestnuts, 2¾ lbs. ; onions, 38 lbs. ; and
G37 oranges.
With respect to the oranges, they were all more or less rotten, and were
seized by the sanitary inspectors under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
and ordered to be destroyed by the magistrate ; 337 were being exposed for sale
cn a stall in Hoxton by a woman residing at No. 8, Hare Walk, 159 on a stall
in Hoxton by a woman residing at 19, Hare Walk, 81 on a barrow in Phillip
Street by a man residing at 16, Station Buildings, Acton Street, and 61 on a
barrow in Whiston Street by a man who gave a false address and could not
be traced. Proceedings were taken before the magistrate in the first 3 cases
with the results already stated (p 39).
The gizzards, heads, necks, and other parts of fowls mentioned above
were in a stinking condition, and were being offered for sale on a stall in Hoxton
by a man residing at No. 2, Flower and Dean Street. They were seized by the
sanitary inspector, and ordered to be destroyed by the magistrate, who fined the
defendant. He was unable to pay the fine and went to prison.
Of the codlings mentioned 45 were seized on a stall in Hoxton and ordered to be
destroyed by the Magistrate as being unfit for the food of man. The man to whom
they belonged, who resided at 18, Wilkes Place, was prosecuted with the result
already stated.
The onions, chestnuts, apples, and one rabbit were also seized as unfit for food.
In the case of the onions proceedings were taken before the Magistrate against the
woman who was exposing them for sale. She was the same referred to as residing at
8, Hare Walk, who was convicted for selling rotten oranges earlier in the year.
On this occasion the Magistrate did not inflict a fine but ordered her to pay 23s.
costs.
SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS.
The reports of the Public Analyst, Mr. H. G. Harrison, M.A., show that during the
year 570 samples were submitted for analysis under the above acts. This number
was at the rate of approximately five samples per 1,000 estimated population.