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W. Pettitt, Milk 12 per cent. Fined £2 and
2, Haldane Road added water 12s. 6d. costs
J. Bertram & Co., Milk 36 per cent. Dismissed.
Earl's Court Exhibition added water peal lodged
W. Morrish, Ditto Withdrawn.
15, Bellevue Road £2 2s. costs
against Vestry
W. Brown, Milk 10 per cent. Fined £20 and
Farmers' Direct Supply added water, 43 12s. 6d. costs
Association per cent, fat
stracted
J. Holloway, Milk 33 per cent. Fined £1 and
4, Greyhound Road added water 12 s. 6d. costs
It will be noticed that William Brown, who trades under the designation
of the Farmers' Direct Supply Association, figures three times
in the list, and that on two occasions the maximum penalty of
£20 was imposed, while on the third the summons was dismissed on a
technical point. As this man had been repeatedly convicted in different
parts of London of selling adulterated milk, I suggested to the Vestry
that as the infliction of fines had no deterrent effect they should proceed
against him by indictment, as Clause 28 of the Sale of Food and Drugs
Act says, " Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the power of proceeding
by indictment, or take away any remedy against any offender
under this Act." The Solicitor to the Vestry, however, advised that
there would be difficulties in the way of proceeding by indictment, so
proceedings were taken in the ordinary way.
Fewer samples were taken than usual during the year, there being
only one sample taken for every 1,662 of the population, while in
London during '92 the proportion was 1 to every 573 persons, in fact,
the number taken was utterly inadequate to act as an efficient check to
adulteration. That more samples were not taken was due to the fact
that the time of the Inspectors was fully taken up in dealing with
ordinary complaints and cases of notified infectious diseases,
which were exceptionally numerous, while the delay in removal made
necessary many additional visits.
The need of additional Sanitary Inspectors is urgently felt in connection
with this matter, and when it is remembered that there are in
Fulham 185 registered milkshops, some idea may be formed of the