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No. 135, Milk, was 9 2/3 per cent. deficient in butter fat.
In both the above cases, the Council gave instructions for the
vendors to be cautioned.
The food offered for sale on and near the Heath on all Bank
Holidays has been carefully inspected, and samples purchased for
analysis. One sample of milk was found to be 90 per cent. deficient in
fat, the vendor of which was fined £1 and 16s. costs; and another
contained 8 per cent. of added water, the vendors of which were
summonsed, but relied upon the warranty defence, and the case was
dismissed without costs.
Warranty Clause.ln October, the question of the difficult position
of local authorities in administering the Acts owing to the "warranty
clause" in the Act of 1899, was considered by the Public Health Committee;
and the Council, on the 20th October, resolved to call the
attention of the Local Government Board and the Board of Agriculture
to the difficult and anomalous position of local authorities in administrating
the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, owing to the use, or abuse,
of warranties given under such Acts, particularly in cases of adulterated
milk, and to urge the necessity for the position being considered by the
above Departments, with a view to amending legislation being introduced
to prevent that evasion of the Acts which the warranty defence now
makes possible.
Unsound Food.
During the year, the inspection of food supply has been systematic
ally carried out.