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The penalty is 5 for infringement of the above bye-law, which is
a most important one, and one that cannot be too forcibly impressed
upon builders, as it is most essential that the servants of a sanitary
authority should see that any apparatus in connection with a watercloset
is properly fixed. The Sanitary Committee in every case
brought under their notice, directed that the builder be written to,
asking him to open the ground; otherwise he would be prosecuted
for infringing the bye-law. During the year 18 cases of fixing pans
and traps without giving notice to the Clerk were brought under
the notice of the Committee. In five of the above instances pans
and traps not in accordance with the I.ondon County Council byelaw
had been fixed. The builders were written to and the ground
opened; in 11 out of the 18 cases reported, when the ground was
opened, the drains were found defective.
In every case where drainage work had been covered in without
being inspected, and also in those instances where drains were
becoming constantly stopped, and no result yielded when tested with
smoke, the Committee authorised the ground to be opened under
Section 40 of the Public Health (London) Act and the 82nd Section
of the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855.
At the meeting of the Sanitary Committee, held 29th July, the
Committee recommended to the Board that the names and addresses
of persons convicted under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act and the
Margarine Act be printed in the monthly reports of the Sanitary
Committee. The Board adopted the recommendation of the
Committee.
The Police Court proceedings were as follows:—