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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1897
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1897
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UNSOUND FOOD.
During the year 325 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 315
loads of wet and dried fruit, and 10 loads of
vegetables.
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.