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(c) That, subject to the approval of the Ministry of Health,
Mr. H. J. Toogood, one of the present District Sanitary Inspectors,
be appointed as Market Inspector by the Council, under the Chief
Sanitary Inspector, at a salary of £450 per annum (£l5O as Collector;
£300 as Sanitary Inspector). [Adopted.
(d) That, subject to the approval of the Ministry of Health,
advertisements be issued inviting applications for the position of
District San it are Inspector at a salary in accordance with the
Whitley Council Scale. [Adopted.
Moved by Councillor Weightman, and seconded —That recommendation
(a) of the Committee be adopted.
The motion was put and declared carried.
Resolved accordingly.
Resolved —That recommendations (b), (c), (d) of the Committee
be adopted."
Extract from Minutes of Council Meeting of 27th September,
1925: —
" Since the Council adopted our report in connection with
the street markets of Bermondsey, certain matters have come to
light which may make it advisable for the Council to try and
have the position regularised by Act of Parliament.
On 10th August a street trader in Lambeth was charged with
assaulting another street trader there because the latter had
occupied a pitch which had been assigned to him by the Lambeth
Borough Council under a similar scheme to ours. The defendant
was subsequently fined for the assault, but the Magistrate
expressed the opinion that neither the Lambeth Borough Council,
Borough Engineer, or anyone else has any right to give anyone
authority to establish a stall in the New Cut, or in any street
which is a public market, and in giving final judgment some days
later the magistrate again expressed the opinion that this street
market business is a gross invasion of public rights. If this
opinion receives general acceptance it endangers the whole position
of street trading and street traders.
Street trading, as was pointed out at a meeting of stallholders
in the Lambeth Borough Council area to consider this
magistrate's pronouncement, is a long-standing custom which