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On the 7th December, the magistrate, sitting at the
West London Police Court ordered to be destroyed a
piece of pork, [having certified the same to be diseased,
unsound, and unfit for the food of man. The pork was
alleged to have been purchased by a person named Usher
at Mr. Thomas Holton's, No. 158, King Street, W.
By order of your Vestry two summonses were
applied for against Mr. Holton, and at the hearing of the
same convictions were obtained, and penalties of £20 with
£2 2s. costs inflicted in the first case, and a penalty of
£30 with £3 3s. costs inflicted in the second case.
SANITARY NOTICES AND ADMINISTRATION.
During last year 3,415 notices were reported as
having been served by your Sanitary Inspectors, having
for their object the removal or prevention of nuisances or
insanitary conditions, against 3,188 in the previous year,
and during last year 3,394 notices were reported as
having been complied with, against 3,218 in the previous
year. The wise course adopted by your Vestry in
appointing a House-to-House Inspector has been continued
during the year. This Inspector reports that
during the year he has inspected 3,574 houses and other
premises in the parish. The defects in premises discovered
as the result of his inspection were as usual dealt
with by the four District Sanitary Inspectors. The
House-to-House Inspection of the district is now nearly
completed, and has taken six years to accomplish. The
result of the inspection is in the highest degree satisfactory
when one takes into consideration the great decrease in
the number of cases of diphtheria, nevertheless, it cannot
be contended that inspecting the district once in six years
is properlv carrying out the 1st Section of the Public
Health London Act, 1891.
Your Factory Inspector has during the year served
229 notices under the Factory and Workshop Acts, and
during the same period 228 notices have been complied
with. A very large proportion of this Inspector's time is