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UNSOUND FOOD.
During the year 175 cartloads of unsound
food were removed by the Cleansing Department
and destroyed as trade refuse at Lett's Wharf
at the written request and expense of the
owners.
The material so disposed of consisted of 150
loads of wet and dried fruit, 4 loads of fish, 21
loads of vegetables, and 15 cwts. of rotten
cheese [from the premises of the London and
North Western Railway Co.].
The procedure prescribed by the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, sec. 47 (8) is as
follows:—
" Where a person has in his possession any
" article which is unsound or unwholesome, or
" unfit for the food of man, he may, by written
" notice to the Sanitary Authority specifying such
" article, and containing a sufficient identification
" of it request its removal, and the Sanitary
" Authority shall cause it to be removed as if it
" were trade refuse."
And section 33 of the same Act directs that
the owner shall pay a reasonable sum for such
removal, and such sum in case of dispute shall
be settled by the order of a Petty Sessional
Court.