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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
The following is a summary of Legal Proceedings
instituted by order of your Council:—
Details of the above are set out in Tables F.G. and I. of the Report
of the Public Analyst in Part IV of this Report.
Proceedings under the Sale of Food and Drugs and
Margarine Acts for offences other than Adulteration:—
For selling milk in a highway from a can or receptacle
which did not have conspicuously inscribed thereon the name
and address of the vendor as required by the provisions of the
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, Wm. D. C., of Forest Hill,
Wm. H., of Walworth, and A. P., of Forest Hill, were each
fined ten shillings and two shillings costs.
For refusing to sell milk to one of the Council's Inspectors,
such milk being required for the purpose of Analysis, A. E., of
Eddystone Road, Crofton Park, was fined £3 and 12s. 6d. costs.
E. M., of Killearn Road, Catford, was fined £1 and 2s.
costs for a similar offence. In this case, on the Inspector
demanding a sample the vendor threw the contents of his can
into the roadway.
Proceedings taken for offences under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, or bye-laws made thereunder: —
For permitting houses to be occupied without water
certificates J. C., of Lewisham, and H. H., were each fined 10s.
and 2s. costs.
Adulteration of Food and Drugs.
Summonses issued 21
Convictions obtained 18
Fines imposed £83
Costs imposed £16 19s. 6d.