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For improperly constructing sanitary fittings A. H., of
Forest Hill, was fined 10s., and 14s. 6d. costs.
For keeping cows in an unlicensed shed at Hither Green
W. R. was fined £2 and 23s. costs.
For removing fish offal contrary to the London County
Council bye-laws, F. B., of Romer Road, Lee, was fined £2
and 2s. costs.
For omitting to place name and address of vendor upon
ice-cream barrow, T. T., of Church Street, Deptford, was fined
10s. and 2s. costs.
Proceedings in High Court against Crystal Palace Gas
Company.
The proceedings instituted by your Council against the
Gas Company for polluting the Rivers Pool and Ravensbourne
by permitting to escape therein large quantities of water-gas
tar derived from the process of manufacture of water-gas, thereby
causing a serious nuisance to the districts through which these
rivers flowed, a report of which was inserted in the Annual
report for 1903, was heard before Mr. Justice Lawrence in the
King's Bench Division of the High Court on the 16th and 17th
May, 1904. After the case for the Council was opened and the
Borough Surveyor and Mr. Butterfield (the Gas Expert) called,
Counsel for the Defendant Company raised a point of law that
these rivers were not sources of water supply within the meaning
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and after argument the
Judge decided this point in favour of the Council. On the
following day Counsel for the Company informed the Court that
after examination of the culvert the previous evening the
defendants admitted the pollution, and he thereupon raised
further points of law, all of which were decided by the Judge in
favour of the Council, and verdict and judgment were given for
the Council for £200 and costs. Counsel for the Company asked