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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 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898

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54
UNSOUND FOOD.
During the year 250 cartloads of unsound
food were removed by the Cleansing Department
and destroyed as trade refuse at Letts' Wharf at
the written request and expense of the owners.
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 if 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.