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age) have taken place; milk depot work; female sanitary conveniences
(public or private); schools; etc., etc.
A room has been taken and fitted up at 331, Kennington
Road, for the use of the two female Inspectors, and is connected
by metaphones with the Public Health Department at 333,
Kennington Road. This temporary arrangement has become
necessary pending the building of the new Municipal Buildings
at Brixton.
The Staff, individually and collectively, has worked well
during 1905, as shewn by the results of inspections, reinspections,
etc., tabulated throughout the Report. It is again
satisfactory to note that during 1905 in but very few cases (0.06
per cent, of the total notices served) has it been found necessary
to resort to legal proceedings before the Magistrate in connection
with sanitary work carried out under the Public Health and
Metropolis Management Acts—8 summonses in all.
Unsound Food.
No legal seizures of unsound food have been made during
1905 by the Inspectors.
The Council, during 1905, decided to ask the Local Government
Board to take the necessary steps to amend the law with
regard to unsound food, so as to enable action to be taken as
required against the original vendor. At present, if a person in
the country sells to a butcher in town, carcases of diseased
animals, and the butcher, acting in a straightforward manner,
and before he tries to sell the meat, requests the Sanitary
Authority to examine it, and such meat is condemned, the
Sanitary Authority cannot successfully institute legal proceedings
against the original vendor of the meat, because at the time of
its surrender to the Sanitary Authority, the meat is not "exposed
for sale, or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale or of