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Drains Partially Reconstructed.
Hancock Road, 31; Bow Road, 56, 78, 80; High Street, 62;
Devon's Road, 60, 192, 190; Campbell Road, 42, 24; Three Mill
Lane, 73; Brass Foundry, High Street, Norris Road, 7; Botolph
Road, 56; Ireton Street, 31; Priscilla Road, 48; Powis Road, 31;
Bird-in-Hand Picture Palace, Bow Road; Priory Street, 28, 30; Merchant
Street, 49.
Food and Drugs Acts.
Acting under your instructions, 104 samples of various food stuffs
have been purchased and submitted to the Analyst.
Three samples of milk proved to be adulterated and summonses
were taken out. Two cases were dismissed on a warranty, while a fine of
20s. and 21s. costs was imposed on the third. For improperly exposing
margarine for sale, the vendor was fined 20s. with 23s. costs.
Various other food stuffs and drags have been sampled, but have
proved to be genuine.
Factories, workshops, workplaces, out-workers' premises, milk shops,
dairies, cow sheds, slaughter-houses, eating houses, bakehouses, ice
cream shops, hairdiessers, market places and stalls, and the L.C.C.
schools have been frequently visited and the premises have been found
to be in clean state.
Large quantities of unsound food have been destroyed, and the
residue being used for cattle feeding.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
H. J. LANGLEY,
Cert. Sanitary Inspector Exam. Board,
Lond. 1891; also Cert. Sanitary Inspector
Royal San. Inst.: 1875 Act;
Inspector under the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, and Canal Boats Act,
Bromley North Division.