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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
The samples purchased in the preceding year showed 25.6 per cent.
Fines imposed for adulteration and contravention of the
Margarine Acts, for the year amount to £106 0 0
Costs ordered to be paid 15 13 0
Total £121 13 0
Unsound Food Seized and Destroyed.
10 boxes of plaice, 281bs. of plaice, 2½ cases containing 197 rabbits, 16 baskets of
cherries, 1 box of mackerel, 2 bushels of whelks, 23 pieces of pork, 99 pieces
of mutton, and 1 turkey.
Workshops.
41 workshops have been registered during the year, and
32 notices served in relation thereto.
Summonses Issued During the Year.
Adulteration 18
Contravention of Margarine Act 5
Factory and Workshops Act 6
Unsound food 6
Houses unfit for human habitation, H.W.C. Act 22
Nuisances, various 37
Unlawfully permitting houses to be occupied without water
certificates 4
Not obeying magistrates orders 3
Contravention of County Council by-laws 1
Total 102
N.B.—A systematic bouse to house inspection is now being made throughout the
parish.
Bedding, &c., Disinfected.
432 lots of bedding have been disinfected during the year, viz.:—
Scarlet Fever 243
Diphtheria 156
Typhoid Fever 27
Small-pox 6
Total 432
The infected apartments have also been fumigated with sulphur.
417 notices have been given to masters of infected dwellings,under Sections 62 and
65 Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and
311 notices, under Section 55, sub-Section 4 Public Health (London) Act, have
been sent to head teachers of schools attended by any patient suffering from infectious
diseases, or by any child who being an inmate of the same house as the patient is
attending school.